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Description of document: Extract of Federal Bureau of Information (FBI)
files on North American Man/Boy Love Association
(NAMBLA), 1979 - 1986
Requested date: 26-March-2007
Released date: 22- January-2008
Posted date: 29- January-2008
Date/date range of document: March 1979 - August 1986
Source of document: Federal Bureau of Investigation
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U.S. Department of Justice
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington, D.C. 20535
January 22, 2008
Subject: NORTH AMERICAN MAN BOY LOVE
ASSOCIATION (NAMBLA)
FOlPANo. 1076225-000
Dear Requester;
The enclosed documents were reviewed under the Freedom of Information/Privacy Acts (FOlPA), Title 5,
United States Code, Section 552/552a. Deletions have been made to protect information which is exempt from disclosure,
with the appropriate exemptions noted on the page next to the excision. In addition, a deleted page information sheet was
inserted in the file to indicate where pages were withheld entirely. The exemptions used to withhold information are marked
below and explained on the enclosed Form OPCA-16a:
Section 552 Section 552a
® (b)(1) □(b)(7)(A) □(d)(5)
^(b)(2) □(b)(7)(B) □G)(2)
°(b)(3) ^(b)(7)(C) a(k)(1 )
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591 page(s) were reviewed and 535 page(s) are being released.
□ Document(s) were located which originated with, or contained Information concerning other
Government agency(ies) [OGA]. This Information has been:
□ referred to the OGA for review and direct response to you.
□ referred to the OGA for consultation. The FBI will correspond with you regarding this
information when the consultation is finished.
H You have the right to appeal any denials in this release. Appeals should be directed in
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Appeal” or “Information Appeal.” Please cite the FOlPA number assigned to your request so that it
may be easily identified.
□ The enclosed material is from the main investigative file(s) In which the subject(s) of your request was
the focus of the investigation. Our search located additional references, in files relating to other
individuals, or matters, which may or may not be about your subject(s). Our experience has shown,
when ident, references usually contain information similar to the information processed in the main file(s).
Because of our significant backlog, we have given priority to processing only the main investigative file(s).
If you want the references, you must submit a separate request for them in writing, and they will be
reviewed at a later date, as time and resources permit.
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s See additional information which follows.
Sincerely yours,
David M. Hardy
Section Chief
Record/Information
Dissemination Section
Records Management Division
Enclosure(s)
To minimize costs to both you and the FBI, duplicate copies of the same document were not processed.
Pursuant to Title 28. Code of Federal Regulations, Sections 16.1 1 and/or 16.49, there is a fee of ten
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policy and (B) are in fact properly classified to such Executive order;
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matters be withheld from the public in such a manner as to leave no discretion on issue, or (B) establishes particular criteria for
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(d)(5) information compiled in reasonable anticipation of a civil action proceeding;
(j) (2) material reporting investigative efforts pertaining to the enforcement of criminal law including efforts to prevent, control, or reduce
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Title is marked "Changed” to reflect the, addreJs^and'|'
name of the above organization as the North American',TMah/-Bby^=s
Love Association CNAMBLA), Box 331, Kenmore Station.,JpEos-ton,
Massachusetts. The title was.„ f.o.rmer 1 v shown as th^~ National
Man/Boy Loy.,e.r,s.^Aasoi;iatio.nJ^ NMBLA H,Coiwen1^ion , Church^’oFTI^
B'^eioveff^Disciples, 348 W. 14th S treet^JievTTork , New York-,- (j
March 24 - 25, 1979. \
Also, it should be noted, that San Francisco opened
investigation regarding this matter under SF File Number 145-951
FR0M:i
Bureau (Info)- (Enc. 27)®'^F^
Boston CEnc. 15) ' - ' T
2 - Brooklyn - Queens CEnc. 15)
3 - Detroit CEnc. 15)
2 - Indianapolis CEnc. 15)
2 - Los Angeles CEnc. 15),
1 - Miami CInfo) CEnc. 15).
;;2 - New York CEnc. 15)
3 - Sacramento CEnc. 1-5). ^'"/
2 - San Diego CEnc. IS) l
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and that this case is now assigned San Francisco File Number
145-1294.
Re San Francisco teletype to Director, dated 3/21/79;
Indianapolis teletype to San Francisco, dated 3/23/79; Los
Angeles airtel to San Francisco, dated 3/30/79 ; Los Angeles
letter to San Francisco, dated 4/30/79.
Enclosed for the Bureau are the following items:
Ca) One, 12 page article entitled, NAMBLA News -
Number One, Spring, 1979, Newsletter of the.
; North American Man/Boy Love Association.
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(b) One, 'two page (front and back) article entitled.
Men and Boys, The Boston Conference, taken
from pages 8 and 9 of Gays Week, February 12, 1979,
(c) One, one page article entitled. Speaking Out -
A Statement to the Gay Liberation Movement on
the Issue of Man/ Boy Love, taken from page 5
of Gay Community 'News , January 6, 1979.
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(d) One, one page article entitled. Speaking out -
On "Women/Girl Love'* or Lesbians Do "Do It",
taken from page 5 of the Gay Community News,
March 3, 1979.
Ce) One, one page advertisement entitled, Special
Teachers /Special Boys, A Novel by PETE FISHER
and MARC RUBIN.
,(f) One, 14 page article entitled, 'The LAMBDA, \
Volume 2, Number 24, Greenwich Village,
March 5, 1979. / ^
Cg) One yellow paper 5 1/2 inches by 8 1/2 inches
advertising for a community meeting to organize - '
' the New York City Metropolitan Area for the ,
National March on Washington D.C. for Le^ian'^^^^'
and Gay Rights, October 14, 1979. '
(h> One gray colored pamphlet entitled i^iEvergreen^V ’'
^ by SIDNEY. SMITH, - " ; ;
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(i) One, 2b page pamphlet entitled, Children of
of the Night,, by PAT MACGREGOR.
(j) One, 5 1/2 inch by 8 1/2 inch pamphlet containing
numerous poems and short articles by various
authors, with the poem oh the first page entitled,
Greek Love. ~
(k) One pamphlet entitled. The Storm! A Journal
for Free Spirits.
(l) One pamphlet entitled, Tiger Beat, with photographs
of young male entertainers on the inside and
outside of the front and back covers.'
Also, enclosed for the Bureau and receiving offices
are Xerox copies of all of the aforementioned enclosures. be
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Further enclosures include the following items ;
(m) One Xerox copy of a two page letter (front and
back) % dated May 26 - June 2 , 1972. from
I L CSC, tor L andl L
(n) One Xerox copy of a two page letter, dated
June 2. 1972, tol — from
I L Childhood Sexuality Circle, P.O. Box 3614,
Chico, California 95926.
(o) One Xerox copy of a three page article entitled,
r Childhood Sexuality. Fair Play for Children,
from I ' [. that was included in the
above letter tol I.
For the information of Brooklyn - Queens, and as the ^
Bureau and other receiving offices are aware, the North American
Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) , consists of individuals
advocating sex acts with juveniles at any age and encouraging" ‘
men to have sex acts with juvenile boys.
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According to a San Francisco Source, NAMBLA was\..;/'^ . ^
created by homosexuals who are primarily Boy Lovers (BL^s)'^,
and that NAMBLA is trying to gain support and numbers from'"f^-
BL’s throughout the United States and in foreign countries, as
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well as from other groups that are not necessarily homosexual ,
in nature -but believe. that there should be no laws concerning
adults engaging in sex acts with children.
BL’s are known to take obscene photographs of
children and trade or sell them, as well as traveling to
various cities, often taking a particular juvenile with
them for purposes of sex.
NAMBLA wants to become somewhat of a political
organization and attempt to encourage various legislatures
to pass a law making sex with children legal.
San Francisco has initiated this investigation in
order to develop any , pertinent, details and obtain the identities
of individuals in regards to violations of the Federal Sexual
Exploitation of Children statutes. Title 18, USC, Sections
2251, 2252, or 2423.
Also, as the Bureau and receiving offices are aware,
and for the information of Brooklyn - Queens, a San Francisco
Source attended the NAMBLA Conference held at the Church of
the Beloved Disciples, 348 W. 14th Street, New York, New York,
March 24 - 25, 1979. '
After returning from New York, the above Source
advised that attempts were being made to have the next NAMBLA
Conference in San Francisco, and provided the following
information.
' ENCLOSURE (a)
A stapled together printed article entitled, "NAMBLA
News", Number One, Spring, 1979, a Newsletter of the North
American Man/Boy Love Association, Box 331, Kenmore Station, '
Boston, Massachusetts 02115.
Information in this article discussed the first ■
conference of NAMBLA, held in December 1978, at Boston's ■
Community Church and advertised for the second conference
be held March 24, 197B, at the New York Church of the- Beloved^
Disciples , 348 ^W. 14th Street, near 9th Avenue; ~ ■
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The address of Box; -2, Village Station, New York,
New York 10014, was given for those wo were interested in •
registering and obtaining information about the above
conference. ^ : .
This "NAMBLA News” article also listed the following
support groups for Man/Boy Lovers:
Cl) Childhood Sensuality Circle (CSC), a United
States subscription for 12 issues isi $6.50,
write I L CSC, P.p. Box 5164,
San Diego, California 92105.
(2.) FPS -r A Magazine - "Their Issue Children and
Sex," $1.50 from Youth Liberation, 2007
Washtenaw, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104.
i C3). Gay Community News^'(GCN), 22 Bromfield Street,
Boston, Massachusetts 02108
: ' (4) Fag Rag, Box 331, Kenmore Station, Bos toh,
Massachusetts 02115.
Other pedophile groups listed in the "NAMBLA News"
'are as follows: ' <
Cl) l^edpphlle„Xnf^)raat in England,
called "Magpie". This newsletter is under the
leadership of | with an address Qf
PI&,
..Box;^ 3;i^:Eonadh , SE 3 8Qd,,
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(2). jferkgrup.p.„RedO)Phi-le in Holland- (No other information
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The "NAMBLA
identif ies
L andl I, - 331 Kenmore_.St:ation, Bostoni^J^
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"NAMBLA Hews" and whoseLagnames appear within are I L
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There is also an article in the News'| regarding
|. According to this article* | |had
■^1 r business in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and due to .
attempted or actual sex acts (the article is not clear) with
a juvenile bov«l [is presently a state fugitive believed
to be seeking refuge in Holland.
ENCLOSURE (b)
A two page article entitled. Men and Boys, The Boston
Conference.
, This is taken from pages 8 and 9 of Gays Week , February
12, 1979, issue and concerns itself with the first conference
that took place in order to form NAMBLA, and what basic philosophies
were adopted*
ENLCOSURE (c)
A one page article entitled, Speaking Out - A Statement
to the Gay Liberation Movement on the Issue of Man/Boy Love.
This was taken from page 5 of Gay Community News (GCN)
22 Bromfield Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02108, January 6,
1979, issue, and is supportive of Man/Boy Love, in line with be
NAMBLA’s beliefs. b7c
ENCLOSURE (d)
A one page article entitled. Speaking Out - On
"Women/Girl Love” - or Lesbians Do ”Do It”.
This was also taken from page 5 of the GCN, March 3,'
1979, issue, and again, was given out at the NAMBLA Conference
because it is supportive of NAMBLA ’s basic beliefs.
ENCLOSURE (e) ^
A one page, advertisement entitled, Special Teacher s4f-
Special Boys, a novel by PETE FISHER and MARC RUBIN, discloses ',
that PETE FISHER* s first book. The Gay Mystique, is non^fictiOj.j-i-
and dedicated tol [. "
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According to this advertisement ,r I and I
are I lof New York City’s Gay Teachers Association
and have now co-authored a book entitled, Special Teachers/
Special Boys, the story of what happens when a Gay teacher
comes out to his students in a school that is a treatment
facility for delinquent adolescent boys. This book is based
onl I experiences in such a school and is supposedly a
work of fiction.
The hard cover price for this book is $10.00 and
soft cover price is $4.95, with an additional charge to New
York residents for tax of 56t hard cover, 28<? soft cover, and
others are to add an additional 70«|: to cover postage,
Special Teachers /Special Boys may be purchased by
sending the bottom portion of this advertisement and payment
to: Gay Teachers Association, 204 Lincoln Place, Brooklyn,
New York 11217.
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ENCLOSURE (f)
One 14 page article entitled. The LAMBDA, Volume 2,
Number 24, Greenwich Village, March 5, 1979.
This article is published weekly by the LAMBDA, P. 0.
Box 101, Village Station, New York 10014, with the staff
consisting of| |, and I I.
Weekly contributors are shown as: I |
], and I |.
This publication is almost entirely involved with
past events and future activities of the Gay community in
Greenwich Village, New York, with some news on a national
level.
ENCLOSURE (g) .. .
A one page yellow paper advertising for a community - ^
meeting to organize the New York City Metropolitan Area for
the National March on Washington, D.C. for Lesbian and Gay rights^-
October 14, 1979.
The purpose of this march is to amount a powerful ’ -
expression of Lesbian and Gay pride.
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The above community meeting took place on April 1,
1979, at;2:00'p.m. at the Beth Simchait Torah Synagogue, 57
Bethune Street or 155 Bank Street. Further details regarding
the national inarch can be obtained by calling CLGR (212)
924-2970. . ..
ENCLOSURE (h) :
One gray colored pamphlet entitled, ’’Evergreen",
by SIDNEY SMITH. ;
This pamphlet consists of 12 pages of drawings of
nude boys and disclosing that the first edition was published
in November, 1978, and that 100 copies were printed.
ENCLOSURE (i)
One 20 page pamphlet entitled, "Children of the Night"
by PAT MACGREGOR.
This is a pamphlet of poems regarding young boys and
sex acts and was written for the enjoyment of BL’s.
ENCLOSURE (i) •
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One pamphlet containing numerous poems from various /
authors, with the poem on the front page entitled, "Greek Love’/.
' ■ , ■ • _ . . ■ ■■ ■ ■ •• . • ' ■ /
This pamphlet has various drawings of nude boys and'
the poems and the short articles concern young boys , and their
sex acts, either with other young boys or with adults. .This
pamphlet was also put together for the enjoyment of BL/s. /
Those, individuals thkt contributed poems or artsicles
to this pamphlet are identified as ROBERT BURDICK, SANDRO
PENNA, RALPH HALL, SIDNEY SMITH, JIM EGGELING, and,IAN YOUNG.
Also, readers of, this pamphlet, who share in' such
a revolutionary life , culture (sex with young boys) are asked '
to contrubute money and poems, articles, or draw,ings:/ to
Puberty Rights, ComeJ Unity Press, 13 East 17th Sti%et,,NeW“^^^^^
York City 10013, C212) 675-3043.
V- /$ - VJ'K
SF 145-1294
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Spirits.
ENCLOSURE (k) ^
A pamphlet entitled. The Storm! A Journal for Free
This pamphlet is edited and published twice a year
by MARK A. SULLIVAN and JIM KERNOCHAN, 227 Columbus Avenue,
Apartment 2E, New York, New York 10023.
Subscription prices for this pamphlet are North
America - 60^ one issue $2.00 for four issues;
the rest of the planet - 80^ one issue $3.00 for four issues,
money payable to the publisher. ^
Other individuals contributing articles to this
pamphlet are IAN YOUNG, ERIC THORNDALE, TOM AVERY, and KERRY
THORNiiEY.
■ Other organizations listed are Libertarians for
Gay Rights (L6R) founded in California with! I
of I L with a mailing address of
LGR News, P.O. Box 69994, Los Artgeles, California 90069, and
New York Libertarians for Gay Rights, with a mailing address
of NYLGR, 4 Bedford Street, New York, New York 10014. ,
ENCLOSURE (1) ,
A pamphlet entitled. Tiger Beat, with photographs of
young male entertainers oh the inside and outside of the front
and back covers.
This is published by Little Caeser Press, 1978,
3373 Overland Avenue, Apartment 2, Los Angeles, California
90034, printed in an edition of 200 copies and consists of
poems or short articles.
According to the San Francisco Source furnishing this
material, this pamphlet is typical of what is found in the . -
residence of a BL and that the photos of the young male stars: r"
are reproduced and used without the consent of the’ actors,,-’""^
their agents, or their employers. ‘ ^
‘ ‘ Source stated that ^th is pamphlet wa$ put together
for no other reason -but to cater or to be a ”ttirn-on'' to BL’s.
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■ENCLOSURES Cm), (n), and (o) ^
.... k Xerox copy of a two page letter (front and back),
dated May 26 - June 2, 1972, fromi [, CSC, to | I
and I U a Xerox copy of a- two page typed letter, dated
June 2, 1972, from the Childhood Sensuality Circle. (CSC) ,
P.O. Box 1614 Chico, California - 95926, and one Xerox copy
of a three page article entitled. Childhood Sexuality,. Fair
Play for Children, from] |.
' _ This letter and the two enclosures sent to I ~|
I I, and I , are included in this investigation in order
to illustrate one of the support^ groups of NAMBLA, as listed
on page 3 of NAMBLA Nes (enclosure a) .
I land CSC, formerly based in Chico,
California, is now based in San Diego, California, and
strongly advocates that children participate in sex acts at
an early age with other children or with adults.
LEADS ■ ^ ■ ■ b7c
BOSTON • '
AT BOSTON, ^MASSACHUSETTS. ,1. Conduct discreet
investigation regarding the Fag Rag and NAMBLA, Box 331, ,
Kenmore Sta.tion, in attempts to identify and locate possible
subjects, including but not limited tol~ ' I
I, .and I Tv
2. Conduct discreet investigation regarding the
Gay Community News (GCN), 22 Bromfield Street, identifying .
individuals involved and scope of circulation as NAMBLA News
and support groups of NAMBLA contribute and= are readers of
this newspaper. ,
. Ji! AT _ FITCHBURG, MASSACHUSETTS, Check with state Or- " ,
ideal authorities regarding the identity of] jand^ ^
inform appropriate authorities of what the N^BLA News. disQlos'es
regarding the possible whereabouts of] j. . , . - ’
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BROOKLYN - QUEENS
AT BROOKLYN. NEW. YORK.
to identify] I arid j]
Conduct background investigation
]of ^
the Gay Teachers Association, 204 Lincoln Place, including
but not limited to, obtaining a copy of their book. Special
Teachers/Special Boys, drivers license, and police department
checks, etc., and identifying any juvenile boys closely
associated with them.
DETROIT .. .
-AT ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN. 'I. Conduct discreet
investigation regarding Youth Liberation,. 2007 Washtenaw in
attempts to identify and learn the location of possible Subjects.
2. Discreetly obtain the magazine being sold, by
Youth Liberation entitled, ’’Their Issue, Children and Sex”
and forward it to the FBI Laboratory, also, forward another
copy of this magazine Cor a Xerox copy of, one) to San Francisco.
INDIANAPOLIS
' AT INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. 1. In attempts to
identify and locate possible Subie'cts. will utilize the
psudonvm of I ~ ~|»
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in writing to
J, CSC, P.O.
Bos 5164, San Diego, California , 9.2105. for a subscription
of 12 issues at $6.50.
2. Also, using thg same psudonym, will subscribe to
"NAMBLA News”, $5.00 for one year or $15.00 for a sustaining
member, NAMBLA News, Box 331, Kenmore Station, Boston
Massachusettes 02115.; ;
3. Will furnish the ' FBI Laboratory and San Francisco /
with arty pertinent information and identities of possible ;v. .
Subjects.', ■' '■ ' ■ ■■
LOS ANGELES ,
AT LOS ANGELES j CALIFORNIA; 1.. Conductv^iscreet
investigation of I |of I I, with , a
mailing address of Libertarians 'for Gay Rights, (LGR) News,
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P.O. .Box 69994, in attempts to determine the identities and
location of possible Subjects.
2. Conduct investigation of Little Gaeser Press,
3373 Overland Avenue, Apartment 2, to determine identities of
the individuals publishing and distributing materials for BL's.
3. Will advise Investigatorr L Los Angeles
Police Department, Juvenile Division, Sexual Exploitation Unit,
of pertinent information regarding this investigation.
4. Will work through Investigatorl [regarding
possible Federal violations of the CSC in San Diego, as he is
very familiar with f land her organization.
Inves t igator
of CSC.
NEW YORK
5 . Will obtain any names of individuals known to
I that belong to the San Francisco Chapter
he
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AT 'NEW YORK, NEW YORK; 1. Conduct discreet investigation
of Puberty Rights, Come! Unity Press, 13 East 17thStreet,-
telephone number (212) 675-3043, in attempts to identify and
learn the location of possible Subjects. ..
' 2 . Check indices , police department records , and
contact any logical sources regarding the following individuals
who have poems or articles for the pleasure of BL^s; I I
3y Conduct discreet investigation regardingl I
and| (of a
pamphlet entitled, "The Storm!”, A Journal for Free Spirits,,
227 Columbus Avenue, Apartment 2E. .
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4. Same as lead Number two above for the^ following'^
individuals who are contributors to "The Storm!"";”] |
L andl L. ^
' 5, Conduct discreet investigation of New^Yor]$7^
Libertarians for Gay Rights (NYLGR) , 4 Bedf ord; "Street, in
attempt to identify, and learn the location^df possible Subjects,
5S=^v-,,c.-.-/;--i
4^.
-'A'
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SACRAMENTO
AT CHICO, CALIFORNIA. Conduct discreet investigation
of CSC, P .0 . Box . 3 614, to determine if the Child Sensuality
Circle still maintains an active Chapter in Chico, and if /-•
possible, identify and determine the location of any individuals
involved. . ' ' ■
SAN DIEGO ' ■ - V
AT SAN. DIEGO, CALIFORNIA; Through liason with U.S.
Postal Inspectors.'^ conduct discreet investigtion of I I
I I. CSC. P.O. B 5764, establishing her identity and location,
FBI or police department records; credit record, etc., and
attempts to identify any other individuals associated with her
or belong to CSC in the San Diego area' that advocate sex with
children. • , . ' ■ ■ • ^ ^ -be
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SAN FRANCISCO • - - •• ; •
AT SAN FRANCISCO , CALIFORNIA. Will maintain contact
with Source and conduct appropriate investigation in furtherance
of obtaining more information regarding the next NAMBLA
Conference and identies and activities of those involved in
sexual acts with children.' .
-In addition to the- af prementioned leads, the Bureau and
all receiving offices are requested tp check indices and local
police department records for the following names: .
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FD-36 (Rev.
TRANSMIT V'lAT
Teletype
Facsimile
AIRTEL
FBI
PRECEDENCE:
I I Immediate
I I Priority
I I Routine
ALL INFOEIIATIOM COHTAIHED
HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
DATE 11-08-20(37 BY 60324/AUC/BAN/STP/bls
CLASSIFICATION: .
□ TOP SECRET
□ SECRET
□ CONFIDENTIAL
□ UNCLAS E F T 0
[3 UNCLAS
8/31/79
PROMS'
SUBJECT:
DIRECTOR, FBI (ATTN: SA
SAC, SAN FRANCISCO ,(145-1294) (P) (SQD 7)
loRTH AMERICy^N MAN/BOY T.OVF.
ASSOCIATION^NAMBLA)
BOX'331
KENMORE STATION
BOSTON. MASSACHUSETTS
ITOM (B) - CHILD EXPLOITATION
00: San Francisco
Re San Francisco airtel to Director, dated 8/2/79;
San Francisco telcall to Supervisor » 8/30/79.
Enclosed for the Bureau is one xerox copy of a
yellow paper that was distributed at the NAMBLA conference /
in New York, 3/2.4-25/79 , advertising for the National March f
on Washington for- Lesbian and Gay Rights^ 10/14/79, (enclosur.e^g.
of referenced San Francisco airtel to Director, dated 8/2/79).
As mentioned in the referenced San Francisco telcall
to Supervisor! j, on 8/30/79 , San Francisco FBI Agents
met with j, who provided valuable information of
which the following portion i^^qertinent to the captioned
inve^tisatioa: ^ I S j 30^ . 3J(
Source stated that! f/ I
I
Bureau
0k1
Bureau
2 - San Francisco
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(4)
Transmitted
(Number)
SF 145-1294
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Source stated that
|. Also, the Lesbian newspaper
in San Francisco has published articles by Lesbians that
state that Lesbians should be willing to die for the, cause.
Source advised that I
Source stated that
Source advised that
Source stated that well over 50,000 Lesbians and gays
are expected to be in Washington, D.C., for the aforementioned
march in October.
I lhas consistently furnished information
that has proven to be highly reliable, and San Francisco
has no reasons to believe that this source would provide any
information to the contrary.
I I is described as follows;
N
Alias
R
D
P
Height
Weight
Eyes
Hair
6 'O'*
185 lbs,
Brown
Blond
SF 145-1294
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Tattoo
SFPD No,
FBI No.
California drivers
license No.
SSAN
Addresses
Former address
Former employment
Arrest record
Vehicle
The files of the San Francisco office disclosed no
record identifiable wi thi 1.
It is r e q u e s t e d that the Bureau search indices for
I, FBI No.r n, and advise the
appropriate agencies regarding"! fand the enclosed informa-
tion. '
LEADS ;
SAN FRANCISCO
AT SAN FRANCISCO^ CALIFORNIA;> Will provide the Bureau
with a photograph of | land any other pertinent
information that is developed regarding the March on Washington,
D.C., 10/14/79.
iTi^JLED 1
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20535
To: SAC, Sin Francisco (145-1294) (Sq. 7) September 10, 1979
From: Director, FBI
^ North American l^jj/Boy
Love AssoclatiotIWNAMBi Al
Box 331 ^
TCeriinor^ Station r
TnyriB) %“cHfL! (p xPnjmiioN
00: San Francisco
Examination requested by: San Fran Cl SCO
FBI FILE NO. 145-5920
LAB. NO.
90807037 D SK
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Reference;
Examination requested;
Airtel dated August 2,1979
Document
Remarks:
You will be advised separately of the results of
the requested Bureau indicies checks. :
No information has been previously received at^^
the Laboratory regarding the North American Man/Boy Love
Association .
to.
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Enclosures (2) (2 Lab report)
SEP 7
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DO . NOT INCLUDE ADMINI^ATIVE .
■'“PAGE® IKFORMATION^N‘"
INVLETIGA'flVE R
ADMINISTRATIVE PAGE
REPOSIT
of the
LABORATORY
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
WASHINGTON, O. C 20535
SAC, San Francisco (T4B-1294I {Sq. 7) September TO, 197^
FBI FILE NO. 14S-5920
LAB. NO. 90807037 D SK
North American Man/Boy
Love Association (NAMBLA)
Box 331
Kenmore Station
Boston, Massachusetts
ITOM (B) - CHILD EXPLOITATION
Ms received August 6, T979 “
Item #1 One, 12 page article entitled "NAMBLA News -
Number One. Spring, 1979, Newsletter of the
North American Man/Boy Love Association
item #2 One, two page (front and back) article entitled
"Men and Boys, The Boston Conference" taken
from pages 8 and 9 of Gays Meek, February 12, 1979
Item #3 One, one page article entitled "Speaking put -
’ ^ A Statement to the Gay Liberation Movement on
the Issue of Man/Boy Love" taken from page 5
of Gay Community News, January 6, 1979
Item #4 One, one page article entitled "SpeakIng-out -
On Women/Girl Love" or "Lesbians ~D,o^ Do It
taken from page S of the Gay Community News,
March 3, 1979 -
Item #5 One, one page advertisement entitled "Special
Teachers/Speci a1 Boys" A Novel by PETE FISHER
and MARC RUBIN
Item #6 One, 14 page article entitled "The LAMBDA,
Volume 2, Number 24, Greenwich Village,
March 5, 1979"
Page 1
EJB :al
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FBI/ D<
Item #7 One yellow paper 5>^l/2 Inches by 8 1/2 Inches
advertising for a comraunlty meeting to organize
Hew York City Metropolitan Area for the
National March on Washington D.C. for Lesbian
and 6ay Rights, October 14, 1979
Item #8 One gray colored pamphlet entitled •’Evergreen"
by SIDNEY. SMITH .
Item #9 One, 20 page pamphlet entitled '•Children, of
the Night” by PAT MACSRE60R
Item #10 One, 5 1/2 inch by 8 1/2 Inch pamphlet containing
numerous poems and short articles by yarious
authors, with the poiem on the first page entitled
"Greek Love" .
• • ■ . ' ' ' . ■ ’ ' ■■ ■■ b6 .
Item #11 One pamphlet entitled "The Storml A Journal b7c
for Free Spirits"
item #12 One pamphlet entitled "Tiger Beat"* with photographs
of young male entertainers on the Instde and
; outside of the front and back covers
__Jtem Ji3 One Xerox copy of. a’y two page letter Cfront and -
back) . dated Hay 26 June 2. 1972. from
CSC, to ^ |, and.^^_^_^ -
Item #14' Ode Xerox copy of a two page letter, dated
June 2. 1972. tdl - - |, from ' J
I I, Childhood Sexuality Circle, P«0, Box -3614,
Chico, Caltfornia 95926
Item #15 One Xerox copy of a three page article ehtitled T:
Childhood Sexuality. Fair Play for Children,
from I ' L that was Included In ;the
above letter to I I
ALSO SUBMITTED: , ' ’V ’
, Photocopies of Items 1 through 12
Page 2 * . ^ (over)
90807037.;p SK ^ ^ ,
Result of examl nation :
^ No materlaT bearing the same content or with the
same titles as Items 1 through 15 have been previously
received at the Laboratory for exaiBlnatlon.
. Items 1 through 15 are being retained at the
Laboratory.
Page 3
90807037 D SK
RECORDED
8/21/79
alg*
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Lgboratoiy Work Sheet
To: SAC, San Francisco (145-1294) (§q. 7)
North American Man/Boy
Love Association (NAMBLA)
Box 331
Kenmore Station
Boston, Massachusetts
ITOM (B) - CHILD EXPLOITATION
00: San Francisco
Eyami nation requested by:
Reference:
Enamination requested:
FBI FILE NO.
LAB. NO. 90807037 D SK
YOUR NO.
Examination by:
San Franci sco
Airtel dated August 2,1979
Document
/^>/5
^ecimene received: A U § U S t 6 , 1979
Item #1
Item- #2
Item #3.
^ Item #4
Item #5
Item #6-
One, 12 page article entitled;^ NAMBLA News -
Number One, Spring, 1979, Newsletter of the
North American Man/Boy Love Association’"
One, two page (front and back) article entitled;^
'Me^ and Boys, The Boston Conference^ taken
from pages 8 and 9 of Gays Week, Feoruary 12, 1979
•«
One, one page articTe entrtled^^ Speaking Out -
A Statement to the Gay Liberation Movement on
the Issue of Man/Boy Love^ taken from ^age>^.5^
of Gay Community News, January 6, 1979
One, one page article entitl ed«f^Speaking out -
On •Women/Girl Love" or'*Lesbians Do *Do It"^"
taken from page 5 of the Gay Community News,
March 3, 1979
One, one page advertisement entitlecU Speciat '^
Teachers/Special Boysjtf A Novel by PETE FISHER ""
and MARC RUBIN
One, 14 page article enti tl edj-*'The LAMBDA, '^
Volume 2, Number 24, Greenwien Village,
March 5 , 1979”
/I// Page
(over )
#7 One yell ow, paper 5 1 /2 inches by 8 1/2 Inches
, a d V e r 1 1 s i n g for a d omm u n I ty me e t i n g . t o. o rg a n I z e
the New York City Metropolitan Area for the : ,
National: March on Washington D.C. for Lesbian
and Gay Rights, October 14, 1979 ’
#8 One gray colored pamphlet enti tl ed -''Evergreen
by SIDNEY SMITH '
#9 One, 20 page pamphlet entitled^ Children of
the Nightj^ by PAT MACGREGOR : .
#10 ■ One , 5 1/2/ i nch by 8 • 1 /,2 inch pamphlet containing
numerous . poems and short articTes by various
authors, with the poem on the, first page entitled
’’Greek LoVe*'
Item
#11 One pamphlet ehti tl ed.^^^ The Storn! A Journal
for Free Spirits^'
#12 One pamphlet enti tl.edj^* Tiger -Beat^ with photographs
.. of yo.ung male entertainers on the inside and
outside of the fronttand back covers ...
#13 One Xerox copy of a two page letter (front and
, : back ), dated May 26 ^ June 2v 1972.. from
I L CSC , to| L and]^^_^ .
#14 One Xerox copy of a two page letter. :dated
'June 2, 1 972 , tol L from
I ~|» Chi 1 dhobd -Sexual i ty Circle , P .0/ Box sejUl-sy
Chico , Cal i forni a / 95926
#15 One Xerox copy of a three page article entitled
Childhobd Sexual ity. Fair Play for Children,
from I L that was included in the
above letter tbl
ALSO SUBMITTED:
Photocopies of items- l,;througj|T2
Page 2 '
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H ATRTEL
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Q Priority
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CLASSIFICATION;
□ TOP SECRET
□ SECRET
I |>CONFIDENTIAL
□ UNCLAS E F T 0
o UNCLAS
FROM:
DIRECTOR, FBI
(Attention: Supervisor!
Document Section, FBI Laboratory)
SAC, INDIANAPOLIS (145-778) (P*)
Love,, Assoc iat ion<3f NAMBJ
Kenmore Station
l^JsibonT^pas^Sh
CHILD EXPLOITATION
00: San Francisco
y0918037^
Enclosed for the Bureau and receiving Field Diyisiphs is a
letter, postmarked at Saa^iego, California., 9/4/f9, bearing
the return address loeo.A^C. P. O. Box 5164. San Diego. Calif,.
92105.’’ addressed to I 1.-,/
I is an SA at Indianapolis), as well \
as the contents of that letter, which were received at Indiana- /»
polis, Indiana, on 9/6/79. ^ '
In accordance with a request from the San Francisco Division,
Indianapolis made efforts to correspond with the NAMBLA, at
Boston, Massachusetts, and the Childhood Sensuality Circle (CSC),
operating from San Diego, Calijfornia. I
In each case, ^
.subscription fee for
furnished with the c
ney ordef^representing the required
MBLA News and the CSC NUSletter was
correspond^l^^^^y
f.'r
<5?- Bureau (E^jP^ ^ ^
2 - San Diego y(Enc. 2) ,J
2 - San Francisco (145-1294) (Enc’, 2)
2 - Indianapolis
MVG-jae
SEP ^1979
-117^
Approved:
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Transmitted
(Number)
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^ ;' ’ i lE!f fb compJlete.jCQrrespon^etfce with NAMBij%*,ib^ to date j
, .^iaiiedi' as NAMBLA is^ all^g^dly' u Post ’Off
; ;>Box Which cbrresponjiehce,, w Indianapolis I , :^India -
;- " Wil If; review itbras previously by San Francisco' and will: • , ; ,
initiate correspondence to a more appropriate , ^ : - f
■ppstal ; receiving’; ^Ibcap ion ,',^' ■ ■; '; ; '. 'V-' ■ - „■ -K'v '' 0 :
1',;^" the vC^^ enclosed items; reveai^^ '
was • apparen^^ 4if f icuity in attaining a subscriptibn, t the;,-
CSC 'NUSlet . twhich was" furnished ’ in the June and .August , 197,9 i f' a. T
A is^es byf~~ I: however, it was noted vt hat there f .
; ' ;appar;%tiy^^^^^^^^ a difference betWeeh a subscriptibh to. the CSC o ;: :: ^ ^
, A.NUSie the;; >CSG j inasrouch as iheArate, structure '
■ ;; fpr/ SubSctiph ®re $6.50 (furhishbd by IhdiahapbitsH
|,::;‘^membei^hip^/iee^ ' '.yW''''' ..y ..' ■•'/•y- ' 'y^-y
r ; ,Alhdiahapblis is furnishing items received to date for Review ;. e
by Bureau„ ahd receiving Field DiVi^ .y , : , , ; • ;
V 'v-y y.' Vi,< V"' '■ ' y*- -^‘r ; „ • ■ ;• • y;-, ;5i /■*,'
• ;■' . ' .. ■ ■ ' '' ■ . • *' • '.yN’i '■ '■ ■ •■■ ' ‘ '-’■*'b7(
1 y rndianapoliS will- await.; instructions prior to conduct ihg ; , ;. .,. ;
further "uhilatera investigation bt CSC and tpe Bureau'' wili bb .■
•adyised ,;bf-^'e^ cp.ramuhications;.wlth ,NAffi i : . ' , 'v'
%: '■■ • < . ,.H
9/7/79
RETFi.V TO
ATTN OF
UN ITE©FST/^ES hGGVERN M ENT
memorciri
BOSTON (145-792) (P)
/Bov
Love Association (KAi'IBITa)
jBP' Kenmore Station
Boston, Massachusetts
ITOM (B) - CHILD EXPLOITATION
(OO; SAi"} FRANCISCO)
DIRECTOR, FBI v
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Re San Francisco airtel to Director, 7/2/79,
captioned as above. ,
Enclosed for the San Francisco office is the
original and two copies of an investigative insert. C
' Boston indices and Massachusetts Division of
Motor Vehicle checks, based on the information furnished,
were unable to identify the following individuals:
1 tt.
2yBureau (info) (Enc. 1)
1-Brooklyn-Queens (info) (Enc. 1)
1 -Detroit (info) (Enc. 1) EX"^^
1-Indianapolis (info) (Enc. I^a ^
1-Los Angeles (info) (Enc. l)^^s
1-Miemi (info) (Enc. 1)
1-Nev/ York (info) (Enc. 1)
1-Sacramento (info) (Enc. 1)
1- San Diego (info) (Enc. 1)
2- San Francisco (145-1294) (SQ 7)
3 - Bos ton
TFD/dmm
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® SEP 1979
OPTIONAL FOPV: NO- Uj
(REV. 7-76)
GSA FPMR (41 Cr«.) 10 v: L
5010-U2
BS 145-792
AT FITCHBURG. MASS.
Will continue efforts to identify [
AT BOSTON. MASS.
Will continue discreet investigation regarding the
Gay Coinmunity News (GCN) , 22 Bromfield St., in, order to
identify individuals possibly involved with the NAI'IBLA
News.
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The following investigation was conducted by
Special Agent (SA)| |at Boston,
Massachusetts.
On August 20, 1979, Postal Inspectorl I
ladvised that Box 331, Kenmore Station , Boston ,
Massachusetts, is subscribed to by I ,
[, for the
Fag Rag.
During August of 1979,1 [stated that an
official at the Keniriore Station Post Office asked F I
if he wo til d accept North American Man/Boy Love Association
(NAMBLA) Nev/s mail at Box 331 in that the box Was only
for the Fag Rag, 91 River Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
~|re fused to accept NAMBLA mail.
I ~|stated that the NAI4BLA news was only a
few pieces per week, while the Fag Rag had a large volume.
~1said the Kenmore Station Post Office was going to
inquire of| [again if he would accept NAl'4BLA News
mail .
The Massachusetts Division of Motor Vehicles
furnished a record fori |, date of birth
I, height 5'8", address] |
I, license P effective
November 16, 1976, expires December 8, 1980, automobile
1969 Volkswagen sedan, blue, registration 924382.
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9/27/79
FROM
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DIRECTOR, FBI ■
ATTENTION: SA| |
•SAC, SAN FRANCISCO (145-1294) (P) (Sq. 7)
SUBJECT:' ^NORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY LOVE jASSOCIATION^(NAMBLA)
Bq2L-33XH ■"— = — ^
Kenmore Station
Boston. Majsis.^^
TTDFTTB)^ child EXPLOITATION
00: SAN FRANCISCO
S&R»3/^ Reference San Francisco airtel to Director, dated
8/3fl/79; and Bureau telcall to San Francisco, 911^119.
Enclosed for the Bureau are four letters regarding
information provided by| |.
Also enclosed for the Bureau are four photographs
of| lof a very militant group of
homosexuals in San Francisco known as "The Foxes . "
As per referenced Bureau telephone call to San
Francisco, 9/14/79, San Francisco has setforth the information
from the referenced San Francisco airtel to the Director in
letter form and enclosed photos of| |for
proper dissemination to the appropriate agency.
It should also be noted that on 3/14/79,1
was cited for a moving violation and fined $96.00.
failed to pay this fine, and on 5/14/79, a traffic warranty
was issued for his arrest. /
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n.f> 10/19/79
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FROM
DIRECTOR, FBI
ATTENTION: FBI LABORATORY
SAC, INDIANAPOLIS (145-778) (P)
91023043--O
LORn^LAME RJilAIL-MAN./^^^^
'B'crx"^1i
KENMORE STATION, BOSTON,
MASSACHUSETTS
ITOM (B)
CHILD EXPLOITATION
00: San Francisco
"* ’ Re San Francisco airtel to Bureau, 8/2/79 and ^
San "Francisco airtel to Indianapolis, 9/14/79.
Enclosed for review by the FBI Laboratory is one
copyof'a recent newsletter furnished to SAI I
in accordance with a subscription placed by Indianapolis to j
the Childhood Sensuality Circle (CSC) .
Enclosed for San Francisco is one copy of the
CSC newsletter; one envelope returned from NAMBLA News,
Box 331, Kenmore Station, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.
For information of the Bureau, San Francisco, and
Boston, Indianapolis, according to previously set out leads
by San Francisco, attempted on 8/28/79, to correspond with
NAMBLA News or| ~|. at Box 331, Kenmore Station, Boston,
Massachusetts 02115, the published address for NAMBLA News,
which had been furnished b>/ San Francisco.,
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X«ABORATORY
federal BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
WWISHINGTON, D. C^i^0535 #
SAC* Indlanipolls (145-778)^ October 31, 1S70
From: Director, F SI
Oaorth_lii
Tove AtSi
Re; Sex 331^
FBI FILE NO. 145*0920
LAB. NO.
90918037 U m
CHILD 'iXPLOlTATIOH
00: San Francisco
Examination requested by:
Reference:
Examination requested:
Indlanapotla .
Alftel dated September 14, 1979
DocuRent
Remarks: ' ' ^
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For the Information of Indianapolis and San Francisco
the Laboratory Is not In receipt of any Information regarding
the above captioned organization other than that provided
by Indianapolis In this matter.
I DO NOT INC-: UD’'j5 AD^IlNiOTKATiVH
1'^ '*Ni XN
1 INVijlkilGATIViS REPORT
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2.- San Francisco (145-1294) fnclosures (2) (2 Cab report)
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MAIL ROOM I
IS OCT 3i 1979
21979'
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X^ABORATORY
FEDERAL BUREjtU OF INVESTIGATION
WASHINGTON, Di e. 20535
, Indlanatolls n4S“778) ti^o&er 31»
Re:
^orth A®epici» ^an/Boy
tove Associatfoo {HAHBLA}
Box 331
Koniaore S tat ton
toston, Massdehosettsi
ITOM (8) -
CHI LB EXPL0ITAT108
FBI FILE NO. 14S-I
■LAB.NO;-- .-, 9W0®37. i' St
Specimens received
Beptesiber 17* 1B75
ltd® 16 000 flyer to Join **Tfee Cfelldhotd Senstmllty Clrtle*
F.0, Box S1i4* San OlifO Ca. B210S* b7C
Item 17 A Child’s Sexual Bill of aifhts
Item 1B CSC Hasletter. VoT V* Ho. 2 done 1B7B*[
Item 18 ^CSC Has letter. Ve1 V, Ho. 3 ftufott 1978*
Hesult of examlnatlen;
Items 16 tHroufh If were not associated with Items
of a similar natore prevloBSly received in the Lahoratory for
exafslnatton*
Items 16 throttth If are reteined at the tahoratory.
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RECORDED
9/20/79
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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
9/17/79
Laboratory Work Sheet
To: SAC, Indianapolis (145-778)
North American Man/Boy
Love Association (NAMBLA)
Box 331
Kenmore Station
Boston, Massachusetts;
ITOM (B) -
CHILD EXPLOITATION
Re:
FBI FILE NO.
LAB. NO.
YOUR NO.
145-5920 ^
90918037 D SK
00: San Francisco
Bxaniination requested by: Indianapolis
Reference: Airtel dated September 14, 1979
Examination requested: DOCUment
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Specimens received:
September 17, 1979
^Item 16 One flyer to join *'The Childhood Sensuality Circle,
P.Oi. Box 5164, San Diego Ca. 92105**
Item 17 A Child *s Sexual Bill of Rights
Item 18 CSC Nusletter, Vol V, No. 2 June 1979,
Item 19 CSC Nusletter. Vol V, No, 3 August 1979,
NiTED SM?E^(36VERNM£NT
date: 10/2eilQ '
BOSTON (145-792)
REPLY TO
ATTN OF,
■=‘"=(PN0RTH AI^ICAN ^N/„BPY.^
J.LpVE", aTsOC i ATIQN ®( IJAMBI^ )
Box 331
^fenirore ~Sl:ation
’ *B^*€o n . Mas s.achuset t s
ITOM CHILD EXPLOITATION
00; SF
DIRECTOR, FBI
Re Indianapolis airtel to the Bureau dated
10/19/79 captioned as above.
Enclosed for the Bureau and receiving offices
are copies of communication sent out by the Boston
Office on 9/7/79 and apparently not received by some of
the offices.
According to Postal ^ Inspector ,
Boston, Ma. .1 I was still not receiving the
NAMBLA news at Box 331, Kenmore Station, Boston, Ma. as
of 9/25/79.
An additional investigative insert is being
enclosed for the San Francisco Office re investigation
at Fitchburg, Ma. concerning! j. « ^
^ Bureau (Encs. 2)
± Brooklyn-Queens (info) (Encs. 2)
1 Detroit (info) (Encs. 2) #
1 Indianapolis (info) (Encs. 2)
1 Los Angeles (info) (Encs. 2) / /
1 Miami (info) (Encs. 2)
1 Nev/ York (info) (Encs. 2)
1 Sacramento (info) (Encs. 2)
1 San Diego (info) (Encs. 2)
2 San Francisco (145-1294) (SQ 7) (Encs. 6)
3 Boston
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FEOERM. BUREAU OF INVEthGAfiOir
WASHIN«Tm^D._C. 20S35
To;
SAC, Indianapolis (145-778)^
From: Director, FBI
December 6, 1979
^-fbTfile no.
LAB. NO.
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LOVE ASSOCIATION (NAMBUO
WX 331
- KENMORE STATION, BOSTON.
MASSACHUSETTS^
ITOM (B)
CHILD EXPLOITATION
"00; San Francisco
Examination requested by: * • * « «
Indianapolis
li5-5920
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Reference:
Examination^requested:
Remarks:
Airtel dated October 19,
Document
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regarding Childhood Sensuality Circle other than that
provided by Indianapolis in r<||irenced airtel.
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To:
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
WASHINGTON, D C. 20535
SAC, IndlanapoHs (145-77%^ December 6. 1979
V
FBI FILE NO. l45-»5920^
NORTH AMERICAN MAN/ BOY lab.no. 91023043 D SK
LOVE ASSOCIATION (NAMBLA)
BOX 331 .
KENMORE STATION, BOSTON,"
MASSACHUSETTS
ITOM (B)
CHILD EXPLOITATION :
Specimens received October 22, 1979
item 20 Nusletter of the Childhood Sensuality Circle,
Vol. V, No. 4 for October 1979
Result of examination:
No additional copies of Item 20 have been previously
received at the Laboratory for examination.
Item 20 Is retained at the Laboratory.
fbi/doj
RECORDED FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
10/30/79 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
alg*
Laboratoiy Work Sheet
To; SAC, Indianapolis (145-778)
^ ^ f^(i . i)
NORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY
LOVE ASSOCIATION (NAMBLA)
BOX 331
KENMORE STATION, BOSTON,
MASSACHUSETTS
ITOM (B)
CHILD EXPLOITATION
00: San Francisco
Examination requested by. Indianapolis
Reference: Airtel dated October 19, 1979
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Examination requested; Document
Specimens received: October 22, 1979
^^"tem 20 Nusletter of the Childhood Sensuality Circle, '
Vol. V, Nov||(? for October 1979
FBI FILE NO-145-5920
lab.no. 91023043 D SK
YOUR NO.
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Date
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FROM:
DIRECTOR, FBI
912O3lit-0,
SAC, BROOKLYN-QUEENS (145-3923) (P)
SUBJECT: NORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY IX3VE ASSOCIATION INAl^LA I . !>
BOSTONtXMSSACHUSETTS'*’^-'’^
iTOiriB) - CHILD EXPLOITATION
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ReSPairtel to th^ Bureau^ M/ £0/ t Zf f C>OiU^iU\.JO ^
to Bureau, dated 9/1/19 and 10/26/7^^nd BQMRAairtel to SF, ^
dated 11/6/79.
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- Baltimore (Ends. 6)
- Boston (145-792) (Ends. 2)
- Detroit (INFO) (Ends. 2)
-' Indianapolis (INFO) (Ends. 2)
- Los Angeles (INFO) (Ends. 2)
- Miami (INFO) (Ends. 2)
- Newark (Ends. 6)
- N^w York (145-3923) (Ends. 2)
- Philadelphia (Ends. 6)
- Sacramento (INFO) (Ends. 2)
- San Diego (INFO) (Ends^ 2)
- San Francisco '(TNFO)"'(l45-1294) (Ends. 2)
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Enclosed for the Bureau and receiving offices are
one copy each of the NAMBLA News Spring/Suininer issue/ and an
advertisement of Boylove Material available from the Gay Sunshine
Press.
Also enclosed for Baltimore/ Newark and Philadelphia
are one copy each of referenced communication. Enclosures from
San Francisco airtel of 9/7/79 are not enclosed; Baltimore/
Newark and Philadelphia should request these materials from
San Francisco.
BQMRA presently developing a confidential source able
to provide information regarding captioned matter.
Source provided information that I
A review of the enclosed Spring/Suininer NAMBLA
News on page two reveals
G.A.A. Box 2, Village Station, NYC, 10014 —
On page three the philosophy of NAMBLA is expressed
in "The Importance of a Uhified NAMBLA". \
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Baltimore, Boston, Newark, New York and Philadelphia
should consider some of the individuals listed in attendance
at the I I meeting are possibly from their area.
Indices and DMV checks should be searched for these individuals.
Brooklyn-Queens will continue attempts to gather
additional information regarding the operation of NAMBLA.
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FROM SAC, Indianapolis (145-778)
CHANGED
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,Sxi33r; ^
Kenmore "Station .
Boston^Jl^^h.^
dba c/o^Gay Activists Alliance,
P..0. Bqx.^2,. -
Village Station,
“Me'vr^YofET^T^w " York
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EXPLOITATION
Title changed to:reveal current mailing address of NAMBLA,
c/o Gay Activists Alliance, P.O. Box 2, Village Station,
New York, New York.
Enclosed for the Bureauare the original and one copy,
and for receiving of|ices ond^copy each, of the "C. S. C.
Nusletter" of 12/Mei0§yREimlE9b»>^y^^ja?5 '
Fiv^r
CP - Bureau. ( Enc . ' 2 )
1 - Baltimore (Info) (ffinc.'l^
2 - Boston (145-792) (Enc. 1)
2 - Brooklyn-Queens (145-3923) (Enc. 1)
1 - Detroit (Info) (Enc. 1)
1 - Los Angeles (Info) (Enc. 1)
1 - Miami (Info) (Enc. 1)
1 - Newark (Info) (Enc. 1)
1 - New York (145-3923) (Info) (Enc.
1 - Philadelphia (Info) (Enc. 1)
1 - Sacramento (Info) (Enc. 1)
1 - San, Diego (Info) (Enc. 1)
1 - San Franlbisco (145-1294) (Enc. 1)
2 - Indlanapblls
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Transmitted
(Number)
'• '-IP;, 145-778;
’ , A review of the publlbatiSfe reveals thal €he-ciir^
, mailing address utilized b/ NAMBLA Is c/^ Gay Activists .
Alliance,' P.'0> Box 2, Village. Stat'ion, New York, New York 10014 .
• ' In accordance with current B^^au instructions; '
' Indianapolis, utilizing an appropriat'e P .0 . Box, will endeavor
...to obtain a subscription to the NAMBLA News, and accomplish .
verification of the previously given Pbst Office address .
. as the jcurrent operating 'point for NAMBLA. *
La bo s m i t ta I
s' %- ■
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LABORATORY
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20535
To: SAC, BzxxdU7H'*QU«eii8 (14$-3923f
Frorj®gyDi rector, FBI
^SSI&31LAllSBISMO^/Bq LOVE
ioSTONl BIASSACHOSETTS} *
ITOM (B) - CHILD E^LOITATIOH
OO: San Francisco
Examination requested by: Brooklyn-Queens
Reference: Airtel Sated Novembet Itl, i979
FBI FILE NO.
LAB. NO.
Examination requested: Document
Remarks :
Jant|iti^ 9, 1980
145^5928
91208011 D SK
iD-
JAN 8 1980
Encloawras (2) (2 Lab report)
2 - San Francisco (145^1294) Enclosures (8) (2 Lab report)
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BO HOT INCLiUBiE AM IN I S TEAT I Ve"
■PAGS(S) INiPORMATION IN
INVESTIGATIVE' BBPORT
ADMINISTRATIVE PAGE
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20535
To: SAC, 6]^ldyB*-^ue6n8 (i4i~$9?8) 9, 1980
FBI FILE NO. ' 145.0920
NORTH AMEBICAN MAN/BOY tmns lab.no 91208011 OSK
Re: ASSOCaATION (NAMBIA) ^
BOX Sn, EENM)RE STATION, "
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS;
ITOM <B> - CMU> BXPIOITATION
Specimens received NoVOXiatber 30, 1979
Item 21 S|?riiig/Siiiaffi©r l*0ii« ofme NAMBIA N«w»
It«a 22 Aa advtxtisesi«nt of Boylove Msteslal sv'idlablo
troBu tho Oajr Sunahiae Prats
Kesull szsialnatlonu
Items 21 sad 22 wera aot oraooi^efl with itcmis of a nattira
pravioiitly raeeived foj* ezaiBiiifttion in ^ XABoratory .
Itffira 21 ai^ 22 era Being ratfdned M the laboratory ,
EJB:ksk* (6)
FBt/DOJ
RECORDED
12/6>'79
12W7
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Laboratory Work Sheet
To: SAC, Brooklyn-Queens (145-3923)
NORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY LOVE
„ ASSOCIATION (MAMBLA)
BOX 331, KENMORE STATION,
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
ITOM (B) - CHILD EXPLOITATION
00: San Francisco
Examination requested by: BrOOkTyn-QueenS
FBI FILE NO.
LAB. NO.
YOUR NO.
/ —
145-5920 /
1
91203*011 D SK
\
Reference: Airtel dated November 26, 1979
Examination requested: DOCUment
V be
Specimens received: November 30, 1979 b7C
Item 21 Spring/Summer issue of the NAMBLA News
Item 22 An advertisement of Boylove Material available
from the Gay Sunshine Press
FBI/DOJ
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if'i'vK.
‘ £
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RR Hq SQ Sf .
OE «K 019
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FfyreWARK (145-1465) (RUC)
W director' (ROUTIflE)"
4r00KLYN-QUEENS (ROUTINE)
. SAW FRA.NCISCO . (ROUtiNEy
/
UNCLAS , ■
/#N0RTH AFiER.ICA W ivlAl/SOY LOVE A'SSOGIaTION d^MBU ) , BOX 331 ,
K E NftORE STA tl 0 N , BOS TO N HUSjTTS , DBA C./O^AY ACTIVISTS
ALIIAK*CE_,_ _YORK , NEW ^K';
ITOM (B) - CHILd’ EXPLOITATION ' ;'. ’ .
RE: .BROOKLYN-qUEENS AIRTEl' TO , BUREAU , DATED NOVEMBER^^^^^
1975, Ai\iD INDIANAPOLIS ATRTEL TO BUREAU , DATED DECEMBER .
IN RESPONSE TO MENTIONED BROOKLYN-gUEENS aIRTEL , NEWARK
INDICES REFLECT FILES •■COKCERWIN'G
£Jtec,AO^tov
Exw. AD-Adm. _
Exc5, AB-US 4
Lalwratofy ^
Legal Cottn^
PlaR £ inep. ,
Rec. feigflt ^
TecJi, Seres. .
Training '
Pnb8cAffi,0».,
Teleidifioe Hra. ^
OirectoPe 8ec*y.
, and
■NEWARK - INDICES ALSO' REFLECT FILE FOR
, and
page T!;j0.^f‘4K (145-14 65) IJNCUS.
AS WELL AS WUMEROUS REFERENCES 'FOR
], AND
IT rs NOTED that NEWARK INDICES DOES KOt
REFLECT any VIOLATIONS that WOULD BE' CONCURRENT WITH CAPTIONED
CASE. , ' ■ ,
NEW JERSEY PMV REVEaE's THE FOLLOwINS REGARDING POSSIBLE-
NAM3LA MEMBERS
-^PD-36 (Rev. 5-22-78)
TRANSMIT VIA:
□ Teletype
I I Facsimile
AIRTEL
RRECEDENCE: .
□ Immediate
I I Priority
I I Routine
CLASSIFICATION;
□ TOP SECRET
□ SECRET
□ CONFIDENTIAL
□ UNCLAS E F T 0
□ UNCLAS
Date 2/ 4/80
From
Director, FBI
Attention : FBI Laboratory
SAC, Indianapolis 145-778
^HANGED : ?
LiiORTH AMERICAN MEN/BOY LOVE ASSOCIATION
BOS:^N . MASSACHUSETTS.,^ba \ -
cTamv ACTTVTR;i;.f |;t;l box 2
NAM/BLA.,_R.a^i)JMII^ . ,
•NEW. YORK CITY. N. Y__-l 00.18. f.' ,,
ITOM
00: SF
0ii206156-
a 'X
Title marked "Changed" to reveal current mailing address
of NAMBLA, P.O. BOX 174, Mid-Town Station, New York City,
N. Y. 10018.
Enclosed for the Bureau are the original and' one copy
and for San Francisco, one copy of NAM/BLA Bulletin,
January, 1980 #1.
Bureau (encs.-2^. ’
San Francisco 145-1294 (enc.)
Indianapolis
MVG-mqc .
6 / 3 '
approved:
W
Transmitted
(Number) (Time)
FEB
I
^ laboratory Transmittal Fopn
■ 7-72 ^
t
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^ LABORATORY
1^, Indianapolis .
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
D. C. ?|>535 ii^eh li# 19 SO
To:
Fj2n!^Kr,ie8ERiaAH file NO.
C/0 SAY ACtlXnS'^S AAIflYMCl, ?*0. BOX 2
VIUJiGB STATIOll, HEW Ymm^ Wm YORK#
HAIVBLA# P.O. box 174# S7?ATICM,#
HEW YORK CITY, H.Y. 10010 j XTOM (B) -
OEIIED BKPIOITATIOH 00 -» San Esfaneisco
145-5920
00200150 0 SK
Examination requested by:
Reference:
Examination requested:
Remarks:
ladianapolis
AtrtGl dated FwSbxnasy 4# 1980
Doctmant
b6
b7C
Sncloaures (2) <2 Lab report) '
2 ~ San rrancisco (14S-1294) inelosures (2) (2 Lab report)
-7- lb
^ '
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
WASHINGIFON, D. C. 20535
To-s&C, maianassolis C14S-778) March 11, if 80
FBI FILE NO,
HOSTS MEH/BOY JjOVE ASSOCIhTIOH
mumm) , mt 33i, mmoi® statioh lab.no.
ReBOSTONr MASSACHUSETTS r ^ha
C/0 GhY ACTIVISTS AMiimCE,. F.O* BOX 2
VILIAGE STATIOH,. HEI7 YORK, SEW YORK, dba
HAM/BhA, P,0. BOX 174, HIO-TOMH SmTIOH,
HEW YORK CITY, H.Y* 10018 r ITOM (B) -
CHIi«D BXPLOITATIOH
145“S§aO ■
00206156 D SK
Specimens received f ebnaary 6, 108 0
Item 23 Original cop:y of the HAM/BLA Bulletin, NuaOser One,
January, 1980
Also SOBMITTEDi
One photo copy of itaa 23
Result of exaiuinationt
Ho additional copies of itosa 23 have been previously
received for examination at the Laboratory . \
Item 23 is being teappSJarily retained at the Laboratory*
EJB : ksk*
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7-2
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RECORDED
2/13/80
alg*
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Laboratoiy Work Sheet
To: SAG, Indianapolis (145-778)
NORTH AMERICAN MEN/BOY LOVE ASSOCIATION
(NAMPLA), BOX 331, KENMORE STATION fbifileno.
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, dba
C/0 GAY ACTIVISTS ALLIENCE, P .O. BOX J^ab. no.
VILLAGE STATION, NEW YORK, NEW YORK, dba
■ NAM/BLA, P.O. BOX 174, MID-TOWN STATI(W»yR no.
NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. 10018; ITOM (B) -
CHILD EXPLOITATION 00: San : Franci sco
Examination by:
145-2920 -
00206156 D
SK
f
Examination requested by:
Indianapolis
Reference:
Examination requested:
Specim^s-received:
Item 23
Airtel dated February 4, 1980
Document
February 6, 1 980
Original copy of the NAM/BLA Bulletin
January, 1980
be
b7C
Number One,
ALSO SUBMITTED:
One photo copy of item 23
FBl/DOJ
_ 'V* A
y UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
r Memorandum
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
TO
FROM
; DIRECTOR, FBI
(Attention: FBI Laboratory)
r «SAC, INDIANAPOLIS (145-778)
date:
3/10/80
subject:
f
5
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JB0317093 ''P
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•NORTH__AMERICAN MEN/BOY
^yO^ocxa^oni
ET AL
ITOM (B) - CHILD EXPLOITATION
00 : SF
Enclosed for the Bureau are the original and
one copy, and for San Francisco, one copy of NAM/BLA
Bulletin of 2/80, number 2.
Indianapolis will continue to furnish to Bureau
and San Francisco, NAM/BLA bulletins as they are received^
Leads in this matter are being left to the discretion of
the San Francisco Division.
/
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1 1 MAR
//: * ■ V2 j--«Bureatf (Enc. 2)
^ - San Francisco (145-1294) (Enc. 1)
1 - Indianapolis
I Wo-als^'’
(5)
,0^
. , 31980 .
« - U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan
UNITED STATES G6V>^'n1®ENT
Memoraiimm
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
^ n
TO
FROM
subject:
Director, FBI-
Attention : FBI Laboratory
SAC, Indianapolis 145-778
date:
4/9/80
NORTH .AMERICAN MAN /BOY LOVE ASSOCIATION-
ETT — — ' OU417029-5>
CHILD EXPLOITATION ^
00: SF
Enclosed to the Bureau is the original and one copy
^ Francisco, one copy of NAMBLA Bulletin
#3, March, 1980.
Indianapolis will continue to furnish the Bureau and
San Francisco NAMBLA Bulletins as they are received-
leads in this matter are being left to the discrete’
ot the San Francisco Division. ■
|)-
'5
^ Bureau ( encs .
2 - San Francisco (enc.-l)
■■ Indianapolis
MVG-mqc
1 -
145-1294
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Memorandum
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
TO : DIRECTOR> FBI
I (Attention r FBI Laboratory
6 Supervisor I
FROM : SAC, INDIANAPOLIS (145-778) (P)
4/23/80
Ov^
subject:
iSQEIATION
NORTH AMERICAN MAN /BOY hOS
ET AE”™“
CHILD EXPLOITATION
00.:„^.„SaruJlr4tncisco
Enclosed for the review by the FBI Laboratory, as well as ^
for information of San Francisco, is an original communication
dated 4/1/80, from CSC, Post Office Box 5164, San Diego, California.
In accordance with leads previously furnished by San Francisco,
the enclosed item was obtained and is being furnished for action as
is deemed appropriate.
Id
Bureau
2 - San Francisco C145-1294) (Enc. 1)
2 - Indianapolis J. riL
IffiG-dae . I ',lo , ‘
Mi Ll \
'8JUN2
jy 0.0. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan
MAILED 13
Lab s 15^, ♦« I F or m
7,52' :v
LABORATORY
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVEg?GATION
WASHINGTON, D. C.^^35
To: SAC, Ihdlanapolis (14S-778)
Mat X5, 1980
From.: Director, FBI
^ORTH AMJSieAN MAll/BOTT
LOVE A^NiCIATlOMl
Re:ET ALj
im’4 (B) - CHILD E^VOITAW^
00: San Francisco
FBI FILE NO.
LAB. NO.
145~S920 ■
00317093 D SK
Examination requested by;
Reference:
Examination requested:
Ixidiaaapclis
Letter date<l 71arch 10, 1930
DociiBsent
Remarks:
Mo additional infonaation is available at the ^ _
Laboratory regarding the north Aaierican llan/Boy Love Assooxa-cxon
other than that which has been previonsly provided xn the
Laboratory by Indianapolis.
y^5- s’fA o -
:-5) my 34
Pi3 |_
Enclosures (2) (2 Lab report!
r2 “• San Francisco (14S-12940%nclosures (2) (2 I^ab report
V-7 .. I
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ill'll
ADMIHISTRATIVE PAGE
DIO WO'T INCLIUDE ADMINISIRAXIVE
PAGE(S) IMFOMAXIO®IJ9
• 1HVE5TIGAIIVEHHP0RT
RECORDED
3/24/80
ksk* -
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Laborotoiy Work Sheet
3/14/80
To: SAC/ Indianapolis (145-778)
7--^ 3 F
NORTH. AMERICAN MEN/BOY
LOVE ASSOCIATION;
ET AL;
ITOM (B) - CHILD EXPLOITATION
00; San Francisco
Examination requested by: . Indianapolis
FBI FILE NO.
LAB. NO.
YOUR NO.
Examination by:
Befetence:
Examination requested:
Letter dated March 10, 1980
Document
145-5920'
00317093 D SK
^pecimns received: March 14, 19 80
f\/P Item 24 Two photocopies of the NAM/BLA Bulletin for
February ,, 1280 , dumber two
<5* ^
/y-
PBI/DOJ
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^ ' #
.UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Memorandum
UNITED STATES DEPARTMlfOT OF JUSTICE
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Director, FBI
Attention: FBI Laboratory
date: 5/22/80
\d¥f^SAC, Indianapol:
145-778
subject:
so’
.5: ^
Si o
(S CTJ
‘“2 <5(v
NORTH_AMERICAN MEKy.BQ.Y-
L0VE~~g??srfrt7a^
ITQM (B.-) - CHILD EXPLOITATION
00: SF '
Re IP let to Bureau, 3/1
,. ' J L Cl C * ^^**'*-***^
€>o3/Pd?'3-'i>~rj:
Enclosed for review by the Bureau are the original
and one copy; for SF one copy of a letter containing
NAMBLA Bulletin #4, 5/1980; also enclosed for jbhe
Bureau is the original and one copy and for SF, one
copy of NAMBLA Journal #3.
Indianapolis will continue tbifurnish the Bureau and
San Francisco printed materials from NAMBLA as they
are received.
Leads in this matter are being left to the discretion
of the San Francisco Division.
Indianapolis notes that there is going to be
Saturday, 6/28/80, at New York, and Indianapc
aware of San Francisco's desires concerning j
to obtain an invitation to the event.
;erence
#at;tempt
\ /
- Bureau ( encs . )
2 - San Francisco (encs.)
1 - Indianapolis
MVG:mqc /
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'4s-s^p(>
m
lira. 3 1980
-—‘Of
Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan
IV
RECORDED'
6/4/80
jeb ^
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Laboratory Work Sheet
5/23/80
To:
SAC, Indianapolis (145-778)
Re: NORTH AMERICAN MEN/BOY
LOVE ASSOCIATION; ET AL;
ITOM (B) - ilflLD EXPLOITATION
00; San Francisco
FBI FILE NO.
LAB. NO.
YOUR NO.
145-5920
I ^
00529026 D SK
Examination requested by:
1
Reference:
Examination requested:
Specimens received:
29
Examination by:
b6
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/i4^
Item 30
ALSO SUBMITTED;
Indianapolis
Letter dated May 22, 1980
■Document
May 28, 1980
One NAMBLA JOURNAL, number three whose address is
P^.O. Box 174, New York, NY 10018
One "NAMBLA Bulletin" number 4, May 1980 whose
mailing address is P,0. Box 17b New York, NY 10018
One photocopy of Items 29 and 30
2 - San Francisco
FBJ/DOJ
REPORT
^ of the
I*AB ORATORY
She, Indlaitapolia (I45-778J
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
WASHINGT^, D. C. 20535
flay IS, 1980
Re: HORTH ?»f4ERICAN MAH/BOy
I*OVE ASSOCXAO?IOH?
iffsrrj ^
BT AL?
ITCM (B)
CSIBD EXFI^I'TA'IjIOM
FBI FILE NO.
LAB. NO.
145-5920 -
00317093 D SR
Specimens received ^
"““**^ *«
Result of e^aiaination;
received for previously
Item 24 is belag retained at the laboratory.
mailed 15
♦ratory T/ansmittal Form
/
To:
/
LABORATORY — .jfi
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20535
37.C, Xr.cli.-uaapolio (1 ’.5-778)
1^-
T'
Jnr\0t 12, IDm
From: Director, FBI
FBI FILE NO.
LAB. NO.
Re- :-TOr.TE MA^T/BOY LOVB
/xr’ociATia:,
r;T AL;
ITOM (D) ~ CHILD EXPLOITATIOH
00 j Oan Francisco
145-5320 —
OOttl7Ct.?0 D sr.
C0430027 D SK
00507004 D SK
b2
b6
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Inliajsapolis
■Lirt/.'l cat.:.?4.Sacc'Tnber 7., 10Y3 and lattors
Apri.l 9f 1980 and Ap.ril*^5/ 1980
Docw'.2r.it
Examination requested by:
Reference:
Examination requested:
Remarks:
A review of jitaterials available at the Labor ate
indicate that the North American Nan/Boy Love Association
(NAMBLA) is a grovip of individuals advocating sex acts betsjeen
consenting individualn regardless of age or sex.
According to a San Francisco source the HAMBLA v;afj
created by hoivosexuals who are primarily boy lovers. The
MAMBLA is attempting to gain support of boy lovers and other
groups that are not necessarily hoKtosexaals, both In the
United States and around the world, who believe that there
should be no laws concerning adults engaging in ^sex acts w
cJiildren.
Enclosures (2) (2 Lab report)
JUN 12 1980
2 ” San Francisco (145-1294) Enclosures (2) (2 Lab report)
2 - Brook lyn-Queens (145-3923) Enclosures (2) (2 Lab report)
2 - Dcston (145-792) Enclosures (2) (2 Lab report)
age 1 '
k F" ' ■ ‘
:ab*(10)
Cii
MAIL ROOM
ADMINISTRATIVE PAGE
DO NOT INCLUDE ADMINISTRATIVE
5 , PAGE(S) INCr-MATTON IN
;j 'INVESTIGATIVE REPORT
251980
, tfcojas. recei'v^d at the“^^feoratory^ -fpr-. '^s^inination ■ ■ ,_0.:
in thin- ■rantter consist pirimanily- of -newslotteirs ahQ other,; .
pphlicatidns rolatih<5' to .thfe activities of ■ the. . .1^:?,,, .. .
the' fKture, , no. XtaboratoryV'rsports will bo' prepared, regarding. ■ ,
, si^mlssibns of .those typa* of items -tmloss a specific r^tiast ' .
is made by thb contxibntor* . .Beceiving offices should, however,,
continne ‘to' subndt ; these -i-tOHis and ntwsiotters in order that
the .hafodratory files pertaining-' to,- tJie may.be kept;.- ._■ _
current. ‘ '
” ! '•.•■'Items o.f a pornographic, or.,-..ctb8Cf hd" natup.e-. -which, a're -
-obtained, ■'dnring the .course - of , invesM^atibns-- 'regarding; the
should still continue to be s^mitted, for the. Laberatdry ,
. for ©xamination and comparison. with Items' on file in the Laboratory.
Page 2 '
00417029 D SK
DO NOT; INCLUDE ADRUNISTRAm
PAGE(S)- . INPOPMATrON IN
. ■ 'INVESTIGATIVE REPORT .
^■4^)
recMvea- Mdy 7, :19S0V ' under cover of . ^ .
dafc©d\''fecesfc©r- 7f-’ 1$79:/ {00507004/-0 SK):.i;'' ' ■•'-A'’ ■ ■■'' '’■■' '•■
•'■ . J' '' ' ^usl®%ter' of;, the Chi^dhocKt .S'ensnality'’ Circle
■. '. -v ;^ol, ' V, Ko« .5 for.-Ooces^Wr ^79 /,.•:
. ■ -'111.90 ■■ . •.' ■ ■ '■■■.: '■
'V - One- ^otdcopy -of 'ltem'%#-' ‘■•'V'.-.-" . ; • ■_' ■
Result of eHaisinattoB'#' . -•.■.''a-' ' - ‘••'a .. ,/■
; 5S0 additional copies Of Itesaa 25 through 2^ have been
. previouely recei-y^d for exaiainatlon at the t.aboratory.
, ' itejBs 25 ..through 28. 'are- fieing' retained at 'the-
Laboratory. ■■'■C ■,
7- lb
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20535
SAG, Indianapolis (145**778)
FBI FILE NO.
Jun© 12, 1980
14S-5920
00417029 D SK
lab.no. 00430027 P SK
Re- HORTH LOVE 00507004 b SK
ASSCCIATIOIJ, ■ •
■ ET ALiS
ITai (E) “ CHILD EXPLOimiOH
Specimens received
Item 25
April 17, V 1980, imder cover of letter dated
April 9, 1930 (00417029 D SK) s
?m?!DLA Bulletin Mimbor iPhree, Harch 1980
/'
b6
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item 26 Statement by the Horth Ar.5eric.an Man/Boy Love
Association to th® Oberlin Conference of the
March on Washington for Lesbian and Oay Rights,
March 7-9, 1980, and a copy from the Gay Conmmnity
Mews, October 27, 1979, newspaper article on the
"ihird HAI©LA Conference Held in Baltimore"
ALSO SUBiMITIEDs
Photocopy of each item 25 and 26
Specimen received April 29, 1980, under cover of letter dated
l^ril 23, 1980 (00430027 D SK) i
item 27 Nusletter of the Childhood Sensuality Circle,
Vol* V, Wo, 6 for February 1980
Page 3
(over)
FBI/ DOJ
7-2
JUM P«l
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RECORDED
i/2/80
ksk8
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
4/17/80
Laborgtoiy Work Sheet
(
To:
Re:
SAC, Indianapolis (.14 5-778)
c s/r <0 i j
"i 392"i
NORTH AMERICAN. MAN/BOY ^ LOVE
ASSOCIATION,
ET AL;
ITOM (B) - CHILD EXPLOITATION
00: San Francisco
FBI FILE NO.
LAB. NO.
YOUR NO.
145-5920
■M)
00417029 D SK
I5> 54c
o<3S’al<^oH "iiS/c
Examination requested by:
Reference:
Examination re que sted:
Indianapolis
Letter dated April
Document
Specimens received:
25
/i/^Item 26
^ J
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April 17, 1980
NAMBLA Bulletin Number Three, March 1980
Statement by the North American Man/Boy Love
Association to the Oberlin Conference of the
March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights,
March 7-9, 1980, and a copy from the Gay
Community News, October, 27, 1979, newspaper
article on the "Third NAMBLA Conference Held
in Baltimore
ALSO SUBMITTED :
Photocpy of each item. 25 and 26
2
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7-2
RECORDED |
5/8/80 FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION 4/29/80
ksk* UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Laboratory Work Sheet f
To: SAC, Indianapolis tl45-778)
NORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY LOVE
ASSOCIATION (NAMBLA) ;
ET AL;
ITOM (B) CHILD EXPLOITATION
FBI FILE NO.
145-5920 —
LAB. NO.
00430027 D SK
■ YOUR NO. CJ <<:? */ / ^
00: San Francisco
Examination by:
Examination requested by:
Reference:
Examination requested:
Indianapolis
Letter dated April 23, 1980
Document
Specimens received;
Item 27
April 29, 1980
N(Ji
fitea^slatter of the Childhood Sensuality Circle, Vol,
No. 6 for February 1980
V.
.b6
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FSI/DOJ
7-2
RECORDED
5/15/80
ab*
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Loboratoiy Work Sheet
5/7/80
SAC, Indianapolis (145-778)
North American Man/Boy Love
Rg. Association (NAMBLA)
Box 331, Kenmore Station,
Boston, Massachusetts,
dba c/o Gay Activists Alliance,
P.O. Box 2, Village Station,
New York, New York;
ITOM (B) - CHILD
EXPLOITATION
Examination requested by: Indianapolis
FBI FILE NO. 145-592 0- , 2-jO
LAB. NO.
YOUR NO.
Examination by:
00507004 D SK
■ oo <-// Tat :f
Reference:
Examination requested:
Specimens received: May 7, 19 80
28 Nusletter of the Childhood Sensuality Circle,
Vol. V, No. 5 for December 1979
Airtel dated December 7, 1979
Document
ALSO SUBMITTED:
One photocopy of Item 28
FBl/DOJ
a UNCLAS E F T 0
□ UNCLAS '
n«tP 6/17/80
From
Director, FBI
Attention : FBI Laboratory
SAC, Indianapolis 145-778
•^QR.TH-AMERICAM,.MAN/BOY LOVE-AaSDCIAZIgN
(NAMBLA,)_
P. 0~ BOZ 174
IT0li" (B) :- CHILD EXP
'00: SF • “ - ‘
G 0 6 2 y u 6 2
Enclosed for the Bureau are the original and one copy qf
NAMBLA-- BULLETIN #5, JUNE, 1980; one copy enclosed for
San Fria?ncisco.
“ Q>u
A review of the NAMBLA Bulletin reveals that contained
therein, dated June 4, 1980, an invitation to the Fourth
Conference on Man/Boy Love, New York City, June 28, 1980.
Inasmuch as San Francisco is Office of Origin in connection
with this investigation, leads are being left to the discretion
of the San Francisco Division-. ^ ,
Bureau (encs.-2)^
2 - San Francisco (encs.-l)
2 - Indianapolis
MVG-mqc
7
qf
Approved:
5.9JUL9 1980
Transmitted
(Number) (Time)
Wm
FBI/d.
RECORDED
6/25/80
jeb
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION 6/20/80
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Laboratory Work Sheet
SAC, Indianapolis (145-778)
FBI PILE NO. 145-5920
NORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY LOVE ASSOCIATION
T A ^ ^
■ (NAMBLA)
Re; E . 0. BOX 174
MIDTOWN STATION
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK 10018;
ITOM (B) - CHILD EXPLOITATION
00: San Francisco
Examination requested by: Indianapolis
LAB. NO. 00620062 D SK
YOUR NO.
Examination by;
Reference:
Airtel dated June 17, 1980
Examination requested: DOCUIUent
Specimens received:
/t-^tem 31
32
Ttem 33
June 20, 1980
NAMBLA Bulletin number 5, June, 1980
Invitation to the Fourth Conference on
Man/Boy Love, New York City, June 28, 1980
Announcement of an open forum entitled
"Homosexual Relationship Between Youths and
Adults" Time and location are 7:30 PM,
The Mellenium Theatre, 66 E. 4th St.
(Near 2nd Ave . ) *
ALSO SUBMITTED:
One photocopy of items 31 and 33
2 - San Francisco
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«1D IN DIAS RP0.1S IEEE -fnCtS ARE AWARE, SAN FRANCISCO
,3 ,IHE BBREAB and H— ,, DOVER <^> ,
HflS A CONnDENHAL bURCEIHA ^ CONSTANI
«•».. .«»••«“' '“ — ' 1 J</ JC' -
pm TWO „
145-1294
UNCLAS^,
^a.UE lU CASES IM\iDLV114G THE SEXUAL EXPIDITAIION OF CHILDREN., v
IH IS SAN FRANCISCO SOURCE will! .
SOURCE WILL ATTEND A PIBLIC FCRiM DURING EVENING OF JUNE
24, I960, AT THE MILLEN lUM, 66 E. 4TH STREET NEAR 2ND AVENUE,
IN NEW YCRK C ITY REGARDING HOMOSEXUAL RELATIONSHIP S BETWEEN
YOUTHS AND ADULTS. , , ^
ON JUJE 28, 1960, SOURCE WILL ATTEND THE NAMBLA CONFERENCE
' f ' ■ *
AT THE PSiFffiPl IN G GARAGE, 33 WOO ^>TER STREET, NEW YORK CITY,
AND PARTY AFTERWARDS IN MANHATTAN . ' i
UtADS. NEW YCRK. AT N EW YCRK C ITY . WILL CONDUCT DISCREET
SURVEIUANCE ON JUNE 28, 1 980 AT THE LOCATION OF THE PERFORMING
GARAGE, 33 WOOSTER STREET, P lOTGGRAP HINQ, IF POSSIBLE, BOY
LOVERS Ca.S) OR JUVEN ILES ATTENDING THE C ONFERENC E AND OBTAINING
LICENSE PIAIES FOR IDENHFKATToN PURPOSES.
SAM FRANCISCO. AT SAN FRANCISCO, G^IFORNIA, WILL PROVIDE
THE BUREA U AND RECEIVING OFFICES WITH AN Y ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
DEVa.OPED BY SOURCE UPON HIS RETURN TO SAN FRANC ISCO.BT
- i 650^2 j., . „ ,
RR HQ NY SF .
^ , I / Jiij: ^ I
R 1703212 JU^ 80 7L-
M INDIANAPOLIS (145-77S)^_^ ; ^
TO DIRECTOR ROUTINE
^NEy Voiik^aTiNE ,
SAN FRANCISCO (U5-12S4) ROUTINE
■ ■■, ■' :c;mw
^7n •'
<\
UNCLAS
!> ATTESTION FBI LABOBATORV , on MX 17A.
»BRIH A«I0AN «ANiBOY . •
BP IP aIRIEL TO BIRECIOR, FBI. APRIL 25. IBB®*.
1 • T« 4U1RE SAN FRANCISCO HAS BEEN CONDBCIING
' AS' THE BUREAU IS AWARE, SAN ^ ^
.r apttutties of the north AI^RICAN
iroesiibaiion in regarb to the activities of ^
. i-iirrENTLY HEADRUARTEREB at NEU YORK
MAN/BOY LOVE ASSOCIATION, currently HSAUHUH
: 1 1 1 * • / ' * .
5- §Uo
CITY. 7 7 )'• TT^ ■■'
EECEIVEB at INDIANAPOLIS CONTAINING AN INVITATION TO M
CONFERENCE ON MAN/BOY LOVE, NEW YORK CITY, JUNE 28, .jy
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PAGE TWO IP 145-778 UNCLAS
INDIANAPOLIS IS FURNISHING THE BUREAU AND INTERESTED OFFICES
A COPY OF THE INVITATION WHICH WAS RECEIVED AT INDIANAPOLIS
ADDRESSED TO I
AS SAN FRANCISCO IS AWARE,
IS A pseudonym
FOR SPECIAL AGENT
WHO HAS CORRESPONDED WITH
NAMBLA AT THE REQUEST OF SAN FRANCISCO#
IN VIEW OF INTEREST OF SAN FRANCISCO AND POTENTIALLY
NEW YORK IN PROVIDING COVERAGE IN THIS MATTER, INDIANAPOLIS
IS FURNISHING THE TEXT OF THE INVITATION TO SAN FRANCISCO AND
NEW YORK BY FACSIMILE.
INDIANAPOLIS DOES NOT INTEND, TO EXECUTE FURTHER INVESTIGATION
CONCERNING THE FOURTH CONFERENCE ON MAN^BOY LOVE IN THE ABSENCE
OF SPECIFIC REQUESTS FROM EITHER NEW YORK OR SAN FRANCISCO.
BT
HQ 2
□ □ □
(Rfev-r-6-23-78)
-y •; s 5.
PRECEDENCE:
□.Immediate
□ Priority
I I Routine
CLASSIFICATION:
□ TOP SECRET
□ SECRET
i O CONFIDENTIAL
, □ UNCLAS E F T 0
UNCLAS -
DliRECTOR, FBI (145-5920)
FROM;
(p
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NEW YORK
*3923)
n I
0^
SUBJECT ;‘*^NORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY LOVERS ASSOCIATION (NAMBLA) ,
P.O. BOXM74 \
MIDTOWN STATION \
new YORK 10018
CHILD EXPLOITATION , I '
ReSFteletype to the Director/ 6ate6^b/20/^.--^^r^
Enclosed for the Bu and SF are Jr8"pictures ^ / i,
various individuals who attende^this conference. As fof | \ A
this date, these individuals have not been identified.! i
Also enclosed for the—Bu and SF are various publicati^s ,
and litert^re available at this conference.
For the information of receiving offices, the
North American Man/Boy Lovers Association (NAMBLA) conference
was held in NYC on 6/28/80 at the Performing Garage, 33
Wooster Street, New York, New York. There was approximately
100 male individuals in attendance at this conference.
The program started at approximately 8:30 AM and ended at
approximately 6:00 PM. The program for the NAMBLA confererjosj
went as foll<J^§TrN. , , ^aLk
^T- Bureau
■U - Boston (145/t92)
1 - Indianapolis (145-778)
1 - San Francisco (145-1294)
1 - New York . IPk
JTD: jxl ^ /.
jg JUL 25 1980
Transmitted^^" Per '•
" (Number) (Time)
<^U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE; 1980-305-750/5402
NY 145-3923
8:30 AM, coffee, doughnuts, registration.
9:30 AM, panel; The Pleasures and Problems of
Being a Boy Lover.
10:30 AM, small group discussions.
11:30 AM, general round-up of discussions.
12:00 PM, lunch break.
1:30 PM, coffee half hour.
2:00 PM, panel. Boys Loving Older Men j^g
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3:00 PM, small group discussions.
4:00 PM, rap up session.
4:30 to 6:30 PM, business meeting.
1. Reports on and the position of NAMBLA in the
gay community and on the attacks on boy lovers.
2. Elections and policy decisions.
Dinner break.
9:00 PM, social party to be held at:
New York, New York (the occupant of this apartment
will be later provided to the receiving offices)
r
JTV
tS
NY 145-3923
The above mentioned conference dealt mainly with
the social and legal problems encountered by the NAMBLA
members. Among those in attendence were the following;
(employee on the "Fag Rag")
LEAD
16
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- NEW YORK
AT NEW YORK, NEW YORK. Upon receipt of license
plate checks, this information, will be provided to receiving
officers.
■r n ^
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S52:*
V
.. . rs^y
^ Ti'
Item 42
{■
Item 43
Photocopy of the route and order of march for the Eleventh
Annual Lesbian and Gay Pride March sponsored by the
Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee
Photocopy of "The Gay Paper for July 1980" published by
Gay Community Center of Baltimore
tern 44
Photocopy of Semiotext (E) Special entitled "LOVING BOYS"
large type series for people with unlimited vision
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RECORDED
10/28/80
ksk*
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Laboratory Work Sheet
10/27/80
To: AD.IC, New York (145-3923)
FBI FILE NO.
145-5920
NORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY LOVERS
ASSOCIATION (NAMBLA) ,
P.O. BOX 174
MIDTOWN STATION
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10018;
ITOM (B)
CHILD EXPLOITATION
00; San Francisco
Examination requested by:
Reference:
New York
Airtel dated July 24,
lab.no. 01027126 D SK
YOUR NO.
Examination by:
1980
Examination requested: DoCUIUent
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Specimens received: October 27, 1980
Item 34
Photocopy of an eight-page report from the "PAIDON
EROS" which is a research and scholarly segment of
NAMBLA
Item 35
j^fltem 36
^Item 37
Photocopy of "The LAMBDA" Vol. II, No. 24 for,
March 5, 1979
Two photocopies of one sheet entitled "NAMBLA"
sub-titled "Man-Boy Love and the Spirit of Stonewall
Rebellion" . ,
Photocopy of advertisement for a book entitled "KEVIN"
available from St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Ave.,
N.Y. 10010
Item 38
Photocopy of Statement of the North American Man/Boy
Love Association, New York City, Lesbian and Gay Pride
March, June 29, 1980
Item 39
Item 40
MV
i:
terns 4 1
Photocopy of the "NAMBLA JOURNAL, NUMBER THREE"
Photocopy of Invitation to the Fourth Conference on
Man/Boy Love, New York City, June 28, i960, dated
June 4, 1980 with schedule of events
Photocopy announcing an open forum entitled "Homosexual
Relationship Between Youths and Adults"
Page 1
(over)
FBI/DOJ
\ J
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TRAl^SMIT VIA:
I I Teletype
I I Facsimile
□ Airtel
PRECEDENCE:
I I Immediate
I I Priority
I I Routine
CLASSIFICATION;
□ TOP SECRET
□ SECRET
□ CONFIDENTIAL
□ UNCLAS E F T 0
□ UNCLAS
T^_._ 847/80
Di :^t6r r FBf 1 II'5-'5 ? To") '
FROM:
ADIC, NEW YORK (145-3923) (RUC) (#M-12)
SUBJECT; NORTH AMERICAN MAN/.BOY
LOVERS ASSOCIATION (NAMBLA),
POST “office B^X*174,“ ' “
HiDTOWN^STia:J,ANr^’“^
NEW YORK., NEW- YORK , 1.0.018 '
ITOM (B); CHILD EXPLOITATION ^
(00: SF),,
>5 C-/? 'A/*/-
ReNYairtel to the Director, dated 7/24/80.
The following license plates were recorded on 6/28/80,
at the Performing Garage, 33 Wooster Street, New York, New York:
1. New York License Plate 278-MWB, registered to
2. New Jersey License Plate YSF-469, regigtered to
New Jersey License Plate 539-HHW, registered to
^2)-Bureau
2-Boston (145-192)
2-Indianapolis (145-778)
2-San Francisco (145-1294)
1-New York
JTD;akf
(10)
TM 0
9-1 X
A^=fr-g^98Q
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C. , f .
Transmitted
(Number)
<Tiii6e)
☆ U.S. GOVERNMENt PRINTING OFFICE: 1980-305-750/5402
NY 145-3923
Viz 4. Connecticut License Plate WU-8945, registered to
Indiana License Plate 2B8747, registered to
6. California License Plate 597-ZDH, registered to
the Peninsula Finance Corporation, Post Office Box 561, Palo Alto
California.
A New York Indices fori
I and [
provided negative results.
Inasmuch as all leads in this matter have been completed
this case is being RUC'd.
i5 jr* ^^UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Memorandum
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
TO ^ : Director, FBI 145-5920
FROM :t SAC, Indianapolis 145-778
date: 8/22/80
subject: L^ORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY ft 1 ^ 7 U O ^ /
COVr~A~gSr)CI ATIQN (NAMBLA) U -
P. 0. BOX 174
MIDTOWN STATION
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK 10018
'IT0M-(B)”CHIIiD”EXPL01TAT'I0N-
00:-sp
se/?^2^
Re IP AT Bureau, 6/17/80.
Enclosed for the Bureau are the original and one-eopy of
NAMBLA Bulletin #6, 7/1980, one copy enclosed/for SI^,
& I
Inasmuch as SF is 00 in connection with this Unve^igation,
leads are being left to discretion of SF. \ % \
- Bureau (encs.-2)/^
- San Francisco (enc.-l)
- Indianapolis
MVG:mqc
4 r
SEP
03 SEP S 1980
■^41980,
Buy (J.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan
RECORDED
10/28/80
ksk*
g- =
••
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Laboratory Work Sheet
10/27/80
To: SAC, Indianapolis (145-778)
NORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY
LOVE ASSOCIATION (NAMBLA)
P. 0. BOX 174
MIDTOWN STATION
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK 10018;
ITOM (B) CHILD EXPLOITATION
00: San Francisco
FBI FILE NO. 145-5920-^^^
lab.no. 01027038 D SK
YOUR NO. ^
Examination by: ^
' y-i-Vo
Examination requested by: Indianapolis
Reference: Letter dated August 22, 1980
i
Examination requested: DOCUIUent
Specimens received: October 27, 1980
^J^ltexci 46 Original of NAMBLA Bulletin No. 6, July 1980
ALSO SUBMITTED;
One photocopy of item 01
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§ □ □
TRAN^T VIA:
Teletype
Facsimile
FBI
PRECEDENCE:
I I Immediate
I I Priority
Q Routine
IJ'
CLASSIFICATION:
□ TOP SECRET
□ SECRET
□ CONFIDENTIAL
a UNCLAS E F T 0
□ UNCLAS
Date
Director, FBI 145-5920
SAC, Indianapolis 145-778
4oRTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY LOVE ASSOCIATION
(NAMBLA)
P. 0. BOX 174
MIDTOWN STATION
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10018
ITOM (B) - CHILD EXPLOITATION
00: SF
S
Re NY AT to Bureau, 7/24/80/ NY AT to Bureau, 8/29/80.
As the Bureau is aware, referenced NY communication,
7/24/80, reported results of surveillance conducted
regarding a conference of NAMBLA held at New York
City, 6/28/80, at the Performing Garage, 33 Wooster
St., New York, New York.
Additionally, on 8/29/80, New York reported that one
Indiana license plate 2B8747, registered to
was located in the vicinity of the Performing Garage,
For information of the Bureau and receiving offices,
investigation conducted at Ft. Wayne, Indiana, by
SaF I. revealed that f '
of the vehicle noted by NY is
characterized as
[
which can be
registrar^t
- Bureau
2 - New York
2 - San Francisco
2 - Indianapolis
MVGrmqc
be
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SEP 22 -£30
A pproved ; ^
(Number)
(Time)
aU,S, GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1 980^305»7!^0/^dO?
I ■ ^xtreme% weal iiidividual and is
within h^ home community.
lHdi4,|iapolls has not disseminated information
.cgnco^ing] |or _his activities- and does not
Conteni|late interview of| [without a specif ic . -
quest from San Prancispo. However, in light of '
investigation executed New York, the following •
l6ads are being set fbrth%
Newiiork - At New York City .,4’
‘ Of individuals attending .
as ^iSGussed in 7/24/80
communication for use by Indianapolis to
au»”jirtS , -
manner in
wmpn surveillance connected vehicle registered
havp vehicle noteid to
Gonference * a^ftendee of the NAl»IBLA
, W -
^.n Fraacisco - At San Francisco . Calif orhlW
Interview- of j
interview^
Indianapolis - At Ihdiariapol is .; Indiana
B^sL T?anM^i ® decision ; ' •
investigation in Ills '*""*“* •wrf.P'.i***
AIRTEL
DATE: liijr g
R, FBI (145-5920)
YORK (145-3923) (RUG) (M-9)
SUBJECT; NORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY LOVE ASSOCIATION (NAMBLA)
PO BOX 174 ■ - . -
MIDTOWN STATION
NY, NY, 10018
ITOM (B) -CHILD EXPOLITATION
(00:SF)
IP,
RelPairtel to the Bu,
dated 9/24/80.
S
dated 9/19/80 and NYtel call to
Enclosed for Indianapolis are various photographs taken
of individuals attenting the NAMBLA conference held at NYC on
5/28/30 at the "Performing Garages", 33 Wooster Street, NY, NY.
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For the information of receiving o
plate 2B8747 registered to| |
vicinity of the above mentioned meeting. I
NY has no direct evidence linking the indiv
that vehicle to the NAMBLA conference held
Garage”. A check of NY surveillance notes
plate to be 2B8747, beige-cream colored Old
license plates were reco. . on vehicles i
of the above mentioned meeting. It should
possible individuals in these vehicles did
mentioned conference .
ffices, the license
was recorded in the
t i s to be noted tha
idual connected with
at the "Performing
revealed the Indiana
smobile 88. The
n the immediate area
be noted that it is
not attend the above
\
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P'^v-
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Inasmuch as all leads in this matter have been
completed, this case is being RUC*d.
[(J'ty
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2 - San Francisco ” •
2 - Indianapolis (145-778)
1 - New York
JTD;nad (8)
’I OCT 4 iQoq
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FBI/DOJ
To
Director, FBI Y145-5920J) Date 12y 10/80
(Attn: FBI L’^Borat^ry, Document Section)
From
.SAC, Indianapolis (I45B-778X (P)
Subject
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North American Man /Boy Love _ Asso.ciatian.^*
CNAMBfeAT
P.O/ Box 174
Midtown, -Station
New Yo^,jCity,.,,„ New York 10018
ITOM-Cbild Exploitation
0121701"
00: SF
Enclosed are the original and one copy of
NAMBLA Bulletins #7 and 8 as well as a letter postmarked
November, 1980;; one copy of each item enclosed for
San Francisco and Boston.
Inasmuch as San Francisco is 00 in connection
with this investigation, leads are being left to the
discretion of San Francisco.
2 - Boston (Ehc. 3)
2 - Indianapolis
^^§>2 1981
“ / 3^
7-2
RECORDED
1/7/81
ksk*
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Laboratory Work Sheet
12/17/80
To: SAC, Indianapolis (145B-778)
North American Man/Boy Love
Association (NAMBLA)
‘ P.O. Box 174
Midtown Station
New York City, New York 10018;
ITOM - Child Exploitation
00: San Francisco
Examination requested by: Indianapolis
FBI PILE NO.
LAB. NO.
YOUR NO.
145—5920 —
01217012 D SK
Examination by:
Reference:
Letter dated December 10/ 1980
Examination requested: Document
Specimens received: December 17/ 1980
47 NAMBLA Bulletin No. 8 for Oct. 1980
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Item 48
/U^^tem 49
50
Draft Constitution For The North American Man/Boy
Love Association
Invitation To The 4th National N. A. M.B.L. A. Conference
NAMBLA Bulletin No. 9 for Nov. 1980
ALSO SUBMITTED:
One photocopy of item 47 through item 50
FBl/DOJ
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Memerandum m
^ A>v
To
DIRECTOR, FBI (145-5920) Date l/5/8i
(Attention: FBI Laboratory, Document Section)
/ SAC, INDIANAPOLIS (145B-778) (P)
(a Oj If
Subject :
a
forth American Man/Boy Love Association
(NAMBLA')
iLt 0— ^Bqx^-1-74. - >
Midtown. Station ^ 4 n
N©w**^or-k-‘Ci%y.j ' New iOOiS 1 U 1 U
ITOM^.j^ CHI^ EXPLOJTATION.-.^...^^
doT San Francisco ^
S s./?' 30
Re Indianapolis letter to the Bureau, 12/10/80.
Enclosed for the FBI Laboratory is NAMBLA News , Issue Number 4,
December/ January , 1981, published at Boston, Massachusetts. The
enclosure was received at Indianapolis, Indiana, by SAl
I Ion 12/18/80, and is not being furnished Boston and San Franc'i^cO-
inasmuch as the document is of a large-sized newspaper format , and^ '
cannot be readily copied at Indianapolis. Inasmuch as San Francisco
is Office of Origin in connection with this investigation, leads are
being left to the discretion of San Francisco , following receipt of
analysis of the document by the FBI Laboratory.
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To: SAC, Indianapolis (145B-778)
FBI FILE NO. 145-5920-^/
North American Man/Boy Love lab.no. 10108016 D SK
Association (NAMBLA)
P . 0 . Box 174 YOUR NO.
Midtown Station
New York City, New York 10018;
ITOM - CHILD EXPLOITATION Examination by:
00: San Francisco
Examination requested by: indianapolis
Reference: Letter dated January 5, 1981
Examination requested: Document
Specimens received; January 8, 1981
^j^;^^Item 51 One copy of NAMBLA NEWS, Issue #4 Dec. 1980/Jan. 1981
copyright by the North American Man/Boy Love
Association
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“CO'?V ASt» SHClPflEri^HETAiNED IN LAB
Memorandum^
%.-W
To
\Ai^9
From
DIRECTOR, FBI (145-5920) Date 1/15/81
(Attention: FBI Laboratory, Document Section)
SAC, INDIANAPOLIS (145B-778) (P)
Subject :
O
North American Man /Bov Love Assoclat ion
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P. 0. Box 174
Midtown Sta.tion
New York City, New York 10018
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Re Indianapolis letter to the Bureau, 1/5/81.
Enclosed for the FBI Laboratory is NAMBLA Bulletin, Number 10,
of December, 1980. A copy of the bulletin is being furnished to
San Francisco. Leads are being left to the discretion San Francisco.
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To; SAC, Indianapolis (145B-778)
FBI FILE NO. 145-5920
North American Man/Boy Love lab.no, 10127077 D SK
Association (NAMBLA)
®’P.O. Box 174 YOURNO.
Midtown Station
New York City, New York 10018;
Item 52 NAMBLA Bulletin mamber 10 for# Dec. 1980 published by
NAMBLA, P.O. Box 174, Midtown Station, New York,
New York, 10018
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SUBJECT: ^NORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY^
LOVE ASS6cTAfrON~CNAMBLA)
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MIDTOWN STATION
NEW YORK, NEW. YORK 10018
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It should be noted that the office of, origin has
been changed from San Francisco to New York.
Enclosed for New York are twenty-five (25) articles
of printed matter that pertain to NAMBLA that have been
received by San Francisco.
ADMINISTRATIVE:
The office of origin has been changed from
San Francisco to New York as a result of the following
developments:
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a) NAMBLA has permanently headquartered their
organization in New York City;
b) San Francisco’s source who was in a position
to provide on-going information from NAMBLA
conferences and activities is no longer in
that position;
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c) The New York Office has developed good source
coverage of NAMBLA's conferences and activities;
d) The San Francisco case Agent has been transferred
to Las Vegas.
During contacts with ! I in the latter part of
1980, source stated that the following individuals are connected
to NAMBLA:
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CASE OBJECTIVE
San Francisco began the investigation of NAMBLA on
5/15/79, as a result of information received from| ~|-
The objective is to identify as many members of NAMBLA,
their associates, and victims as possible, as NAMBLA believes
in having sex with juvenile boys at any age , as long as the boy
is a willing participant.
Source information disclosed that NAMBLA members are
"boy lovers" (BL) , that many members transport young boys inter-
state for purposes of sex, and that many take photographs of
their boys in the nude or having sexual acts and send them
through the U.S. Mail with letters to each other.
Furthermore, several BLs set up boys for sexual pur-
poses for visiting BLs or make arrangements for a boy to travel
to another BL's residence.
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A secondary objective is to develop individual cases
on BLs who have been identified for violations of the Sexual
Exploitation of Children laws passed. 2/6/78 .
Hopefully, these objectives could be accomplished
without NAMBLA recognizing that their organization was under
investigation.
New York should be aware that Indianapolis is on
the NAMBLA mailing list and receives NAMBLA 's regular mailings.
will be in a
Also, that San Francisco expects that
position in the future to further benefit this investigation.
San Francisco has not recommended that any individuals
attending the NAMBLA conferences be interviewed by Agents, so
as not to reveal this investigation.
New York may consider having certain members inter-
viewed in regard to an investigation regarding another NAMBLA
member, but in no way mentioning NAMBLA or knowledge that both
individuals involved are NAMBLA members.
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INDIANAPOLIS
AT INDIANAPOLIS , INDIANA. Will continue to be active
on the NAMBLA mailing list and provide New York with all mailings
and pertinent information.
NEW YORK
AT NEW YORK, NEW YORK. Will direct captioned investi-
•gation and keep FBIHQ, Indianapolis, San Francisco, and other
appropriate offices apprised of developments regarding this
investigation.
SAN FRANCISCO
AT SAN FRANCISCO. CALIFORNIA. Although San Francisco
has placed this case in an RUC status, San Francisco will provide
New York with any pertinent information that may develop as a
result of San Francisco investigations.
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Attention : FBI Lab
Document Section
SAC, Indianapolis 145B-778
Date 3/6/81
»M^N/BOXLQVEJ^m^
(NAMBLA)
PO BOX 174
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Enclosed for the FBI Lab is NAMBLA Bulletin, Volumeii#2,
No. -1, January/February, 1981. A copy of the bulletin
is being furnished SF.
Leads are being left to the discretion of San Francisco.
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To: SAC, Indianapolis (145B-778)
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FBI FILE NO. 145-5920
NORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY LOVE
ASSOCIATION (NAMBLA)
PO BOX 174
MIDTOWN STATION
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK 10018
ITOM - CHILD EXPLOITATION
00: San Francisco
Examination requested by: Indianapolis
Reference: Letter dated March
Examination requested: DoClUlient
LAB. NO. ^ 10313060 D SK
YOUR NO.
Examination by:
Specimens received: March 12, 1981
/uTltem 53 NAMBLA Bulletin, Volume #2, No. 1 for January/Febfuary ,
— 1981 published by NAMBLA, P.O. Box 174, Midtown Station,
New York, N.Y. 10®18
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(Attention: FBI Laboratory, Document Section)
SAC, INDIANAPOLIS (llSBsSZS) (P) ^
10410079
ORTH AMERICAN MAN /■BOY, LOVE ASSOCIATION
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P-O- RQ^ 174
_.Midtown_Sj:^t.iQn
00 ; New York
Re Indianapolis letter to the Bureau, 3/6/81.
Enclosed for the FBI Laboratory is an original copy of NAMBLA
Bulletin, Volume 2, Number 2, March, 1981. A copy of the Bulle^,i-n
is being furnished New York and San Francisco.
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Examination by:
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Examination requested by: NeW York
Reference: Letter dated April 2, 1981
Examination requested: Document
Specimens received: April 10, 1981
NORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY
LOVE ASSOCIATION (NAMBLA)
Re:p.0. Box 174
Midtown Station
New York City, New York 10018;
ITOM - CHILD EXPLOITATION
NAMBLA Bulletin, Volume 2, Number 2 for March 1981,
ipublished by NAMBLA, P.O. Box 174, Midtown Station,
New York, N.Y. 10018
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Re Indianapolis letter to Bureau,
Enclosed for the FBI Laboratory is an original copy of
NAMBLA Bulletin, Volixme II, Number Three, April, 1981. A
copy of the bulletin is being furnished to New York and,
San Francisco.
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(Attention: FBI Laboratory, Document Section)
From
SAC, INDIANAPOLIS (145B-778) (P)
Subject C^ORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY LOVE ASSOCIATION (NAMBLA)
PtJST“OFFICE‘“B-OX'T.W
.NEW YORK. NEW YORIC 10018
ITOM - CHILD EXPLOITATION
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Re Indianapolis airtel to the Bureau, and
Indianapolis letter to New York, 6/30/81.
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Enclosed for the FBI Laboratory is an original copy of
NAMBLA Bulletin Number Four, May, 1981, and NAMBLA Bulletin,
Volume Two, Nvunber Five, of June, 1981, which were received at
Indianapolis on 6/24/81 and 7/24/81, respectively. Copies of
the bulletins are being furnished to New York.
Indianapolis has not as yet received a response
request, 6/30/81, whether the New York Division desir!
Indianapolis to pay requested dues for continuation o
membership in NAMBLA.
'As the enclosed items reveal, Indianapolis has again been
requested for membership dues . -?3
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NEW YORK DIVISION
At New York, New York
Advise Indianapolis whether dues should be paid and
investigation should be continued.
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Laboratory Work Sheet
8/11/81
To: SAC, Indianapolis (145B-778)
NORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY LOVE
ASSOCIATION (NAMBLA)
POST OFFICE BOX 174
MEDTOWN STATION
new' YORK, NEW YORK 10018;
ITOM - CHILD EXPLOITATION
00; New York
FBI FILE NO.
LAB. NO.
YOUR NO.
145-5920
10811066 D SK
Examination by:
Examination requested by: N©W YOiCk
Reference:
Examination requested:
Specimens received:
Letter dated August 4, 1981
Document
August 11, 1981
^^;>'Item 56 Vol. 2, No. 4, of the NAMBLA Bulletin for May 19 81,
from NAMBLA, P.O. Box 174, Midtown Station, New York,
New York 10018
I tern 57 Renewal notice
Item 58 A brochure on Introducing North American Man/Boy Love
Association
^^^Item 59 Vol. 2, No. 5, of the NAMBLA Bulletin for June 1981,
from NAMBLA, P.O. Box 174, Midtown , Station, New York,
New York 10018
yt;!^ritem 60 Renewal notice
^(j,^r1ctem 61 One-page paper of Various News headlines
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TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (145-5920)
(Attention: OrgarTized Crime Section
FBI Laboratory, Document Section)
m(^: SAC, INDIANAPOLIS (145B-778) (P)
NbRTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY-LOVE^ASSOlCIATION
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POST OFFICE BOX 1.74
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U Indianapolis letter to the Bureau, 8/4/81
Enclosed for the FBI Laboratory is an original copy of a
letter directed to I I. with enclosures thereto, which
was received at Indianapolis 8/4/81. A copy of the letter is
being furnished to the Organized Crime Section for information.
Two copies of the letter are being furnished to the New York
Division.
For Information of New York and the Bureau, the enclosure
contains numerous references to the FBI and its so-called attemp;^
to undermine and harass NAMBLA members. ;
Bureau (Enc. 2)
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It is also apparent from the content of the corranunication that
Indianapolis activities related to this investigation have not been
discerned by the managers of NAMBLA.
In accordance with New York's request, Indianapolis will renew
NAMBLA membership and will continue to submit copies of correspondence
which is received.
LEADS
INDIANAPOLIS
At Indianapolis , Indiana
Renew membership in NAMBLA, utilizing name[|
and.
thereafter, furnish items of correspondence to Bureau and New York
as they are received.
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(Attention: /“Organized Crime Section
FBI Laboratory, Document Section)
SAC, INDIANAPOLIS (145B-778) (P)
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(NAMBLA)
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Enclosed for^^^felfe FBI Laboratory is an original copy of NAMBLA
News #5. Fall, 1981 Issue, which was directed tol I receivec
at Indianapolis 8/31/81. A copy of the NAMBLA^ News #5 is being
furnished to the Organized Crime Section for information, as it
heavily deals with FBI activities concerning captioned organization.
One copy of the NAMBLA News #5 is being furnished to New York
and Brooklyn-Queens , as there are pending investigations at New York
and Brooklyn-Queens.
For information of the Bureau, New York, and Brooklyn-Queens,
Indianapolis has renewed membership in NAMBLA and will continue to
submit copies of correspondence which is received . C\ ^
LEADS
INDIANAPOLIS
At Indianapolis, Indiana
Provide, until further notice, copies of correspondence rec»i\«d
from NAMBLA to FB I HQ^and^ interested Divisions. /s^
Bureau (Enc. 2 )
2 - Brooklyn-Queens (31B-11620)
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Laboratory Work Sheet
9/15/81
SAC, Indianapolis (145B-778)
NORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY
LOVE ASSOCIATION (NAMBLA)
Re: POST OFFICE BOX 174
MIDTOWN STATION
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10018;
ITOM - CHILD
EXPLOITATION
00 : New York
Examination requested by: IndianapOlis
FBI FILE NO.
LAB. NO.
YOUR NO.
Examination by:
Reference:
Examination requested:
Letter dated September 10, 1981
Document
Specimens received: September 15, 1981
145-5920
10915028 D SK
62 Original copy of NAMBLA NEWS #5, Fall, 1981 Issue,
' Copyright by "NAMBLA, P.O. Box 174, Midtown Station,
New York, New York 1003|^L
To
From :
Date
DIRECTOR, FBI (145-5920)—, 33 ..
(Attention: Organized Crime Section
FBI Laboratory, Document Section)
SAC, INDIANAPOLIS (145B-778) (P)
9/10/81
Subject: ' NORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY LOVE ASSOCIATION /
(NAMBLA)
POST OFFICE BOX 174
MIDTOWN STATION
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10018 /
ITOM -
CHILD EXPLOITATION
00: New York
Re New York airtel, 8/11/81.
Enclosed for the FBI Laboratory is an original copy of NAMBLA
News #5, Fall, 1981 Issue, which was directed to I L received
at Indianapolis 8/31/81. A copy of the NAMBLA News #5 is being
furnished to the Organized Crime Section for information, as it
heavily deals with FBI activities concerning captioned organization.
One copy of the NAMBLA News #5 is being furnished to New York
and Brookl3m-Queens, as there are pending investigations at New York
and Brooklyn -Queens.
For information of the Bureau, New York, and Brooklyn-Queens ,
Indianapolis has renewed membership in NAMBLA and will continue to
submit copies of correspondence which is received.
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At Indianapolis. Indiana
Provide, until further notice, copies of correspondence receiver’,
from NAMBLA to FBIHQ and Interested Divisions.
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(Enc. 1)
2 - New York (145B-3923)
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NAMBLA NirWS FAJLL 19Sl
oontrnued from pi^e 3
“Gel the wild one.’’ and “We’ll kiU you!” As
they departed, their car was pelted with garbage.
The NAMBLA group returned later in the
week, along with David Groat, himself recently
released from prison after a NAMBLA effort to
free him. Groat is no»- working full-time for
NAMBLA as a volunteer Defense Committee Co-
ordinator. As they arrived in Baldwin Harbor thi^^
second time. Groat. Fox and two others were pick-
ed up by local police. The police threatened them
with arrest while they ran a NCIC (federal crime
computer) check on them to see if they could hold
them. Groat, Fox and the others were given sub-
poenas to appear at a local grand jury concerning
Swithinbank that was to sit July 30 in Nassau
County. Police then accompanied them to Swith-
inbank’s bouse. It was obvious the bouse had been
vandalized. Many items had disappearead, in-
cluding a stereo, a boat and other valuable per-
sonal items. Police summoned neighbors from
their houses to ask if they could identify any of the
men. Police then quickly departed and left an
angry mob of IS to 20 adults to again threaten
Fox, Groat and the others. A few photographs
were taken for use in Gay Community News but
the group was unable to do an inventory because
of danger from the local mob. They were again
chased and threatened as they left.
•‘We were set up by the police.” Fox said. ■“One
policewoman told me we would be killed if police
left. Then they left! Our civil rights were clearly
^olated. We must return to the house and secure
it and document the thefts so that Martin [Switb-
inbank] can Tile claims. The house is still open to
vandalism.”
Fox emphasized that the mob consisted of
adults. “A group of teenagers on the comer were
quite friendly to us.”
On July 21. Brian Quimby of New Hampshire
(a NAMBLA member who is working on social-
science research projects related to man-boy love)
was called and questioned by local police at the
station. Police told him they had been given his
name by national police agencies. Quimby’s name
oud -PC. box numbes^werc. listed.jp the roost recent
NAMBLA BULLETIN which was among items'”
taken from Swithinbank ’s home.
On July 22, another New Hampshire NAMBLA
member, who is also a long-time leader of New
Hampshire’s most prominent gay organization,
was arrested and charged with 2 counts of
“felonious sexual assault” on a 14-ycai-old male.
Both the man and alleged ^‘victim” had marched
together in the Boston and New York Gay Pride
Parades as part of the NAMBLA coniingenu.
NAMBLA members in Michigan and Califomia
also reported harassment from local police. On
July 23, John Sherman was arrested as he deplan-
ed at San Francisco’s airport and was relumed to
New York. He faces a charge evidently related to
his friendship with Swithinbank. Sherman is a
NAMBLA member who had attended the emer-
gency steering committee meeting held to
the arrest of Fox. Swithinbank. Ahlers and Ham-
mill. It is assumed that some other arrests will be
made, including some in New Jersey and including
some other NAMBLA members.
NAMBLA RESPONDS: ACTION
According to the NY POST, long-time Nnssnn
County detective, IMon Iriznivl, 37, of South
Farmlngdale, was arrested and charged with Meal-
ing a SO-channel c^ile TV box during tbc massive
rakf «Mi the home of Martin Swithinbank.
NAMBLA takes an aggressive, activist stance.
We will seize the offensive. Some of the actions
which NAMBLA and its members will take to
counter these unconstitutional attacks, outlined
above, include these:
t) ITie cases of Fox, Martin, Ahlers. Hammill,
9»ermaii and the others are very weak. No por-
nography or prostitution is alleged. No coercion
or violence of any kind is alleged. The ages of boys
allegedly involved seems to be 12 to 18 . (New York
law “protects” boys from the pleasures of sex un-
til their 18th birthday.) Many of the boys and their
porenu are enraged at police and will not cooper-
ate. The relationships between the men and the
boys allegedly involved were long-standing, loving
and caring and .were with plermission of the par-
ents.
ACTION: NAMBLA engaged an attorney to
represent Fox and Swithinbank at early hearings
(cost: S700). NAMBLA has engaged an attorney
to represent Swithinbank -.t further hearings (cost:
$500). NAMBLA is coos'idermg further help for
Swithinbank and any of the other men who re-
quest it, a.ssiiming that the men will raise as much
of the money as possible. NAMBLA’s coffers are
emptying quickly in this crisis. MORE MONEY
MUST BE RAISED IMMEDIATELY. We need
THOUSANDS of dollars. Since we have nearly
SOO members, some of whom earn reasonable
salaries, we appeal to our membership for, money
for the Defense Fund. We assure the monbership
that we will participate in the defense of these and
other men <mly if no coerdoo. violence or pornog-
raphy is involved IN OUR OPINION. We wUl
pcuticipate if the defense is an upfront defense
which will stand for pride in our life-style. We will
participate only if the defense attorneys are rea-
sdriabie in'tbeir' fces-aad-politicallv-syTTipathetic to
our cause. We stress that no final decision has
been made to aid the defense of these men beyond
their initial hearings.
2) The media and District Attorney of Nassau
County, and possibly other offidats including
agents of the FBI, have made clearly libellous
statements about NAMBLA. They have lied.
There is no question of various interpretations of
statements or facts, but of statements which are
wholly and clearly false and spoken with full
knowledge of their falsity. NAMBLA has never at
any time been involved in illegal activities.
NaMBLA has not sponsored any sexual or porno-
graphic activity whatsoever, nor has such activity
occurred as a result of • contacts made at
NAMBLA meetings,
ACTION: NAMBLA has. therefore, engaged
New York attorney Michael Lavery to sue several
newspapers and TV stations, the District Attorney
of Nassau County and other officials (including
possibly FBI agents) for UBEC.
3) The police, and possibly the FBI, have violat-
ed the d'vil rights of the men arrested, of other
NAMBLA members, and of NAMBLA as an or-
ganization. Attempts to obtain our mailing lists
are dearly illegal. The harassment of Brian Quim-
by of New Hampshire and other NAMBLA mem-
bers in other parts of the country is totally uncon-
stitutional. The police treatment of Jerry Fox.
David Groat and others who visited the Swithin-
bank house after the arrests were violations of
their dvU rights, in particular the set-up by police
Of the dangerous mob attack at the house. Media
bear resptmsibility for this mob violence also.
ACTION: The NAMBLA attorney will pursue
legal action concemmg these dvii rights viola-
tions.'induding possible dvi! and criminal prose-
cutions. '
4) The primary purpose of this massive FBI-
police attack on NAMBLA has been to smear
NAMBLA, to divide its membership and to separ-
ate gay and other groups from supporting
NAMBLA.
ACTION: NAMBLA calls on all members to
remain active, to report any harassment directly to
our hot-line phone number (see beJow). and to
send immediately membership renewals and other
contributions. NAMBLA has written an “Open
Letter to The Gay Community” requesting sup-
port. We hope this will be published in every gaj
publication. NAMBLA is c^ing on gay organiza-
tions and individuals as well as straight progres-
sive and dvil liberties groups to sign a statement of
support for NAMBLA against FBI and other po-
lice harassment. We ask them to join in a coalition
to protect the dvil liberties of NAMBLA and its
members. NAMBLA plans rallies and demonstra-
tions to make public our protest Eind show the sup-
port from other groups.
5) The FBI and police are helpless unless we co-
operate with them.
ACTION: We call on all NAMBLA members to
follow the suggestions in the article “What To Do
If The FBI Calls.” The best policy is to refuse to
■ay ANYTHING beyond name and address to any
ptrfice or FBI agent. That is your right. As a man-
boy lover, it is your duty. Boys should also be
reminded that they do not need to speak to police
or FBI. Most Americans believe they MUST talk
to police. Bbys~hlive’'the'righi-to-i emain- silent.
boys are pressured by police and parents into mak-
ing initial statements, they have the right to refuse
to testify and they can remain silent. Even if they
have made statements to a Grand jury, they have
the right to remain silent. Such boys need an at-
torney of their own and are entitled to one. Men
who are accused of sex with boys have every right
to talk with those boys and their parents — and
their attorneys should talk with the boys as soon
as possible. Talking with a witness is not forbid-
den, so long as no one implies, threatens or direct-
ly suggests that a boy should lie or remain silent.
Rather, boys can and should be reminded of their
right to an attorney and their right to remain
silent. In some cases, attorneys can help boys be
removed from the homes of hostile parents who
are cooperating with police.
6) The boys are the ones most harmed by the
raids, interrogations, police threats and trials.
ACTION: We must prepare boys and, where
possible, their parents for these traumas. We must
be more careful in our own judgments on other-
wise simple matters (telephone calls, use of
alcohol, marijuana, leaving boys alone at home,
neglecting relationships). One boy close to the ar-
rest of a NAMBLA member was found crying out-
side the man’s house. “Now I’ll have to pretend
I’m straight, no matter how 1 feel inside. Being
gay is too dangerous.” We must better shield boys
from the ugly assaults and traumas. Being proud
and gay does not mean using poor judgment or be-
ing indiscreet.
CONTACT:
NAMBLA
PO BOX 174 Midtown Station
NYC, NY 10018
<212) 475-0987
NAMBLA NEWS FALL 1*«1
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NAMBLA ARRESTS: THE FACTS
Our first need is to share correct i/\formation
and combat rumors. The folto^ning is a summary
of the facts in the FBI and media camptagns to
slander and destroy NAMBLA and its members.
In the late evenins of July II. 1981. more than
30 police from the FBI and 8 dty. county and state
law asendes broke through the locked doors of a
cottage in Baldwin Harbor. Long Island.
With guns drawn and flash cubes ablaze, they
smashed furniture and seized 4 persons who were
quietly watching TV. They arrested two
NAMBl-A steering committee members, Jerry
Fox and Martin Swithinbank. They also seized 2
thirteen-year-old boys whom they held by force
and interrogated throughout the night. The men
were also questioned from 1 1 PM until about 6:30
AM the following morning. Fox was questioned
only by police, while Swithinbank was interrogat-
ed by police and by teani.s of FBI officers who
rotated in 2-hour shifts.
Meanwhile, in upstate New York. 2 other men
— Karl Ahlers and Hugh Hammill — were simi-
larly attacked by police and FBI as they sat talking
with S boys, their mother, father, grandfather and
an elderly aunt. They were playing whist as the
police made the arrests. These boys were taken
and questioned by police for 5 hours. Protests by
the parents were ignored. One boy fainted. De-
spite intimidation and heavy-handed police tac-
tics, the boys provided the sxtUce with little or no
information. The two men were charged with pos-
session of a small amount of marijuana and pos-
session of an allegedly stolen check. The ACLU is
considering representing the boys and their family
_,on-ghar*tes-ffgainst^th.e. nolice. The boys continue
to live with one of the charged men with the per-
mission of the parents.
Jerry Fox was charged with one count of 2nd
degree sexual abuse. This is a misdemeanor in
New York and generally refers to fondling. The
boy involved is the 13-year^ld seized with Fox the
night of the arrests. This misdemeanor charge car-
ries a maximum penalty of one year in prison and
a $1000 fine.
Swithinbank was charged with a so-called Class
D sexual felony, sodomy with a person over 1 1 but
under 16. The person was not identified in the
warrant and was evidently not the boy present at
the time of the raid.
All the men except Swithinbank were held until
the next morning on SSOOO cash bail. This is an ex-
ceptionally high bail for the charges involved.
Swithinbank was held on a $100,000 cash bail.
Swithinbank and Fox were represented at a bad
reduaion hearing on July 13 by Atty. Ted Pinto
who was engaged by NAMBLA. Bail was not re-
duced. Ail but Swithinbank were able to raise bail.
Only Swithinbank remains in the Nassau County
Jail where he has been subjected to extreme
harassment by officials and threats from fellow
prisoners. Swithinbank has been denied access to
pen and paper, which is normally supplied to all
prisoners. Swithinbank is the only one of the four
to have been arrested previously. He spent 19T7 in
jail on a charge of Class D sodomy. Ironically,
during his previous incarceration, Swithinbank
built a prison library for which he received a com-
mendation from Nassau County officials.
The true purpose of the raids became evident in
the media and during the all-night interrogation
sessions. Newspapers — including the New York
Daily News, The New York Post, and Newsday —
blared uniformly sensational and inaccurate head-
lines; SEX RING SMASHED. SEIZE 4 IN LA.
-MAN-BOY” SEX RING. <An indication of
some kind of inadvertent progress was use by ihe
media of the phrase **man-boy” rather than **kid-
dies,” “children,” or **young boys.”)
News accounts, including TV — stated that
NAMBLA was itself a “sex ring”! Nassau Coimty
District Attorney Denis IMUon said the men were
“members of . . .,The North American Man-Boy
Love Association that specialized lo 'sexual ex-
plOftatitM) of young boys’.”
Dillon identified NAMBLA as a group “with
the announced purpose of breaking down barriers
of acx taboos between men and boys,” and as an
organization dedicated to eradicating the “ex-
treme oppression” of men and boys involved in
such re^tionships. He and others were also
quoted as saying that the men arrested had met the
boys at NAMBLA meetings where they also ex-
changed and sold pornographic films. Dillon also
said chat boys were transported across state boun-
daries to NAMBLA meetings for “immoral pur-
poses.” Police said “huge quantities” of
NAMBLA literature were seized at the Swithin-
bank bmne, that names of NAMBLA officers
were found in the literature, and that “more ar-
rests are promised.” One official made the usual
comment that all this was only “the tip of the
iceberg.”
The literature referred to consisted of
NAMBLA brochures which have been mailed to
churches, political and gay groups. They have also
been distributed at Cay Pride inarches. There
could not have been many brochures in Swithin-
bank’s home since they are in scarce supply and
only a few were given to each steering comnuttee
member.
The media also played up the child pornography
angle, stating that . . boys were brought on
numerous occasions to (Swithinbank ’s home
under NAMBLA .auspices) where they were intro-
duced to middle-aged men who sodomuzoinuid'
sexually-abused them while videotape cameras re-
corded the action. Some 300 videotapes were seiz-
ed along with SO reels of 8 mm film ...” {News).
Other reports insisted that the videotapes and/or
films were all “hard-core child pornography.”
The implication was that child pornography was
made by Swithinbank and others under auspices
of NAMBLA.
Swithinbank has told NAMBLA members there
was not a single videotape of a sexual nature, that
tudy one or two tapes ini3uded some ftiUy-ciotbed
boys in non-sexual situatioas. He said most of the
t^>es were full-length classic films, including King
Kong. Bcmbi and Snow White. Tlie press officer
for the Nassau D.A., Mr. Crilley, later admitted
to The Cay Community News (Boston) that the
D.A.’s office knew there were no pornographic
videot^>es. At most, a few of the 8 nun fibns may
have had sexual content, but these films were
more than 10 years old and had been purchased
legally over-the-counter in stores in New York
City. None of th^ 8 nun films had been made by
Swithinbank or by anyone known to him. The
porno issue was cdrviously a red herring from the
start, used as part of the press campaign to smear
NAMBLA and inflame popular passions against
the men arrested.
The report of NAMBLA involvement was like-
wise totaUy false. Swithinbank had not been cen-
trally involved in NAMBLA. At no time have
NAMBLA meetings been used to exchange por-
DOgratdiy ,' information abemt boys or to transport
boys (or men) across state lines for “immoral” or
other purposes. NAMBLA has been scrupulous in
these matters and has conducted meetings and
social events solely in accordance with our pur-
poses: to provide legal and other help for men and
boys inv^ved in inter-age relationships; to do
educational and research work; and to work in the
legal and political spheres for changes in op-
inessive laws.
NAMBLA has taken positions on the age of
consent, on imprisonment of men for non-coerc-
ive homosexual activity, on the military draft and
on D .S. imperialism in £1 S^vador and elsewhere.
NAMBLA contiiigents marched in demonstra-
tions in Washington, New York and Boston. Wc
have been a presence in all recent Gay Pride
celebrations. VUl NAMBLA’s activities have been
open. Nothing has been done in secret.
Distorted news accounts said that "a dozen” or
“a score” of boys “age 8 to 15” were involved in-
the alleged “sex ring."
Swithinbank says that he knows about S boys
who are now between the ages of 12 and 18. He
has known all of these boys for 2 to 4 years and he
knows their parents as well. The day before the
raid on his home, he participated in the Junior
High School graduation celebration for one of the
boys. All sources indicate that no prostitution or
coercion of any son is alleged. Several of these
boys continue to stay at the home of one of the ar-
rested men, along with adult members of the fami-
ly. Several of the boys and their parents have
indicated total support for the men and have made
clear their anger about police and FBI har^sment.
While in police custody, Swithinbank and Fox
were questioned repeatedly about NAMBLA.
Swithinbank said the FBI agents seemed to believe
that NAMBLA was a cover for a massive illegal
criminal conspiracy to produce and distribute por-
nography as well as to transpiort boys inter-state
for prostitution. The FBI urged him lo volunteer
sudh information in exchange for promises of his
release. Swithinbank told NAMBLA; “They pro-
mised me the moon if I wmiid simply cooperate in
giving information about other men and
NAMBLA.”
Serry Fox"^nmiCT ted "Tney seemed" to thin k-1-
hArt all this information about other men, which 1
certainly don’t have."
At one point, police thumbed through a card
file to provide a NAMBLA member’s phone
number for Swithinbank to call for help. “We
know all about NAMBLA,” they told him. A
number of NAMBLA steering committee mem-
bers were mentioned by name during the lengthy
police interrogation. These names were mentioned
just in a general context, not with reference to any
speciric acts.
The media reported that the FBI and other
agencies had had Swithinbank ’s house and other
locations undet survetlUin.ee for at least 4 months.
Swithinbank said police told him they had taken
videotapes round-the-clock and they had photos
of men going in and out of his home, including
some NAMBLA members. Police told the media
they h«H spent nearly a million dollars on this
probe, which they had dubbed “Operation
Hawk.” Agents said they had rented the house
right next door to Swithinbank’s home in order to
carry out their secret spying.
The FBI asked Swithinbank for NAMBLA
membership lists and financial information in ex-
(diange for a deal. Swithinbank commented that
he could not supply such information even if he
were willing, which he was not. None of the ar-
rested men had access to membership lists or
organizational files.
Since the arrests of men in New York,
NAMBLA and NAMBLA members have contin-
ued to be harassed. Swithinbank asked Fox and
several other NAMBLA members to return to his
home in order to secure it against theft. (Police
had left the home open and unguarded.) He also
gave Fox power of attorney to sell his belongings
in order to get cash for his defense.
When Fox and other NAMBLA members re-
turned to the Baldwin Harbor house, they were
met by a group of adult neighbors. The house was
located in a lower-middle-class area. The group
quickly became hostile; they threatened them,
shouted obscenities and threw rocks and eggs at
the NAMBLA members. The mob screamed;
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namklj^ news fajx isn
ContlniMd from Pig* 1
Island, Swithtnbcu^ was citaroed with one
count of "class D” felonious sodomy on
an unnamed boy “over 11 and under 16."
not named. Fox was charQSd with second
degree sexual assault, which usually
refers to fondling, on an unnamed boy over
11 and under 16. AM the men except
SwithirTbanK were held under $5,000 cash
bait. Swithinbank’s bail was $100,000
cash! Even the $5,000 is exceptionally
high for the misdemeanor charges involv-
ed, but the $100,000 is unheard ot.
NAMBLA was called by Fox ^d Swithin-
bank and provided $700 to Atty. Tod Pinto
who represented the two men at arraign-
ment and a bail reduction hearing. The
judge refused to reduce bail.
3. District Attorney Dents Dillon of Nassau
County and other police and county otli-
clals reportedly told the media (TV sta-
tions, New York Dally News, N.Y. Post, and
Newsday) that the men were NAMBLA
"officials," that “large quantities of
marched in die NAMBLA contingent at gay
pride parades In Boston and New York.
7. On July 23, John Sherman was arrested as
he left a plane In Calltomia for a vacation
and was retumod to New York on unspeci-
fied “sex charges." Sherman is a friend of
Swithinbank, a NAMBLA member, and had
attended the emergency meeting of the
NAMBLA Steering Committee which con-
sidered the original arrests.
8. On the basis of interrogation of Fox,
Swithinbank and others, a number of other
arrests of NAMBLA members and other
Individuals was expected.
9. NAMBLA, at its July 18 Steering Commit-
tee meeeting, took the following steps:
1. Committed funds for the defense of
Martin, Fox and the other men (If request-
ed) during the initial hearings o/>fy, began
a search for radical gay or straight civil
liberties lawyers to defend the men;
appointed a committee to investigate the
charges and ascertain that pornography,
pnastitutlon and coercion were NOT in-
volved; took steps to give the arrested men
emotional and other support.
2. Engagad Atty. Michael Lavery to sue
media, the District Attorney of Nassau
County and the FBI tor iibel and civil rights
violations.
3. Sought to establish a broad coalition of
qay and straight groups to support the civil
rights of NAMBLA and the men arrested:
this included a letter to the membership,
an open letter to the gay community, and a
petition of support.
4. David Groat became tuM-time voluntary
Defense Fund Coordinator, to coordinate
all these activities. $70 per week expenses
were voted.
5. The membership would be apprised of
its rights and the proper way of dealing
with FBI, Grand Juries and other legal offi-
cers.
NAMBLA materials were seized," that
NAMBLA is an organization "speciaffzing
in sexual exploitation of children,” and
that the FBI was cooperatirtg tn “smasning
a huge nation-wide marv-boy sex ring."
They also told the media that Marlin and
Fox met boys “under the auspices of
NAMBLA” and exchanged pornography
(including sates) at NAMBLA meetings.
NAMBLA categorically denies ati these ac-
cusations. Media also reported 300 por-
nographic video tapes plus 50 por-
nographic films which allegedly showed
boys and men in sex acts, allegedly filmed
by Martin. Later, the Nassau County D.A,
office said the video tapes were harmless
tapes ot movies like Bambi, and that they
found no evidence of pornography being
- — fr.ade.-wNo-,PomoQraohv charges were
made. There was no allegation of prostitu~
tion, coercion or violence. The media said
“a dozen" or "a score” ot boys, aged 8-15
were involved. Swithinbank told NAMBLA
members that he only knew B boys, all of
whom had been friends for years, that he
knew their families weM. and that the ages
of boys who had been questioned by
police were 12-18.
4. Swithinbank and Fox report they were
questioned repeatedly for hours about
NAMBLA. Swithinbank said he was "otter-
ed the moon" and his freedom if he woufd
provide information about NAMBLA,
especially NAMBLA membership lists and
organizational flies. He commented that
he does not have access to these in any
case. Police and FBI questioned him about
several men, Including NAMBLA mem-
bers, and promised "many more arrests."
5. Between Juty 20 and 22, several NAMBLA
members in California, Pennsylvania,
Michigan and New Hampshire were ques-
tioned by police — not about specific boys
or ^legations of sex or pomography, but
simply about their NAMBLA membership.
Brian Quimby in New Hwnpshire had pub-
lished his name and box number in a
NAMBLA Bulletin, requesting assistance
in a research prr^ect. New Hampshire
police Questioned him about hfs NAMBLA
membership end told him they had infor-
mation he was the local representative of a
child molesting group.
6. On July 22, a NAMBLA member was ar-
rested on two counts of “felonious sexual
assault" on a lA-year-oid boy who had
been his friend (with family permlsslor^ for
some time. Both the man and the boy had
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FBI & POLICE CAMPAIGNS AGAINST NAMBLA
Thes« ar« photos of the chaos and vandalism dona by attac«cln«
focal and federal poftce (hiring the raid on Martin SaritMntanrs
home In Baldwin Haihor. 11 July 1981. After all persons were re-
moved from the house, police felled to secure the property. Neigh-
bora, encouraged by potice, looted me premises. A few days later, a
local cop was arrested and charged 'with stealing Swithinbank's
SO-channel cable receiver for his TV.
We aM knew it would occur sometime. With Reagan in the middle and the (im)Moral
Maiority loose in the streets, NAMBLA became fair and (they hoped) easy game. Man-boy
lovers in the United States now face their greatest challenge. Will an all-out attack on us
send us scampering back to closets and other hiding places? Will illegal and wholesale
arrests and sensational yellow journalism panic us? In the past, such tactics were
immediately successful. The Better Life Journal, the Greek Love Association and other
predecessors of NAMBLA were literally destroyed through witchhunts and guilt by
-association. In Enotend, PIE has not yet recovered from the atrocious and barbaric
conspiracy trials and the prison ternTfor T6m'0’CafretirNow^it’is*our-iurrc— —
It IS now obvious tnat NAMBLA is under a massive FBI and police attack, nationwide.
JThe attack-!S-simi!ar-to those undenaken by the' FBl'agaih'st such diverse groups as the
Socialist Workers' Party, the Church of Scientology, the Black Panthers & the National
Lawyers' Guild. But we should not assume that we are under attack simply because
NAMBLA has been stridently political. Police crashing through doors with guns drawn;
slanderous and false accusations of wild and immense sex rings; whipping up public
hysteria through witchhunts: aM of this is not new to man-boy lovers. These have been the
terror tactics used against us for decades in the United States. Thousands of men are now
in prison because of such gestapo methods, and hundreds of men and boys have commit-
ted suicide over the years because of the hysteria they generate. For those of us who love
boys — and for the boys we fove — the United States might as well be Nazi Germany. Our
rights are scarcely more protected here than the rights of Jews in the Third Reich.
NAMBLA has not brought on this oppression (as some will say In their rush to get off
board). In fact, NAMBLA was born out of exactly such a campaign in the "Revere Sex Ring"
cases in Massachusetts. There was no sex ring, and NAMBLA’s predecessor organization,
the Boston-Boise Committee, was successful in rallying many lesbian, gay & straight
organizations to support the civil rights of men falsely accused. All but one of the men (out
of 24} was kept out of prison because of the activist response.
We will win this battle, too. If we stand together. Not one man need go to prison if we
renrrain united and vigilant. The temptation is great to run and hide, to flee NAMBLA like a
ship shot down in battle. That would not only be morally wrong and cowardly, however. It
would be individually and politically stupid. The FBI and other authorities have launched
the raids for precisely that purpose; to divide and scatter man-boy lovers who are organiz-
ing. If we stand together, assert our rights and refuse to panic, we can turn the FBI attack
around, just as we did in the Revere cases. The District Attorney who launched the Revere
sex scandal was turned out of office largely because of a gay and civil liberties backlash to
his handling of those cases. We can do the same to the FBIrFBI and police have spent a
million dollars or more of the public's money going after what appear to be relatively tew
and minor charges of men having sex with taenaged boys. Their charges of links to
NAMBLA lack all credibility and can be easily exposed. They have wasted this money at a
fime when public services everywhere are being cut. The Nassau County Jail, whore
NAMBLA Steering Committee member Martin Swithinbank Is held under the outrageous
$100,000 bail, is notoriously overcrowded and under a court order to reduce its population.
On the day of the publicity about the raids, the New York Post carried a story about the
murder of 15 babies in the New York area which had gone unsolved because of tack of
funds for proper potice investigation! Another story told of massive cuts in the anti-rape
squad which made it difficult to investigate genuirie (heterosexual) rapes. The million-
dolleu- invasion of our civH rights has netted so far extremely minima! charges.
There IS no massive boy-sex ring. There IS no child pornography empire. They simply
dc not exist.-NAMBLA is a completely legal and above-board organization and the FBI and
other authorities kriow that. For all their video tape s~ and around-the-clock cioak-and-
dagger routines, the FBI & police have next to nothing! If we stand strong, they are the'
ones who will lose out. NAMBLA and our members whose rights have been violated wilt be
vindicated! ;
BRIEF SUMMARY
OF EVENTS:
1. On July 11, two raids took place in New
York.; orte upstate and one in Baldwin Har-
bor, Long Island. Four men were arrested,
Including two NAMBLA steering commit-
tee members: Jerry Fox and Martin Swith-
inbank. Fox is a professor of social work;
Swithinbank is an author and currently is
engaged in legal video work. The raids in-
volved over 30 FBI and other police from 8
agencies and came after at l^st four mon-
ths of “24-hour surveillance by video” of
Swithinbank and other men at several lo-
cations. The raids were violent: doors were
broken down, furniture smashed, the car
of one arrested man was inexplicably dam-
aged by police, two 13-year-old boys were
marvhandJed, guns were drawn.
2. The men and boys were interrogated aM
night, for as many as eight hours straight,
without a lawyer present. Despite this, the
boys evidently gave no information to> po-
lice and the men were not charged with
sex with these boys. In the upstate raid,
the parents of the boys were also present.
Upstate, the only charges were the pos-
session of a small amount 'of marijuana
and an allegedly stolen check. On Long
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NAMBLA J«EWS FAIX IMl
IX>VE LETTER FROM A BOY (NOW A MAN AND A LOVER OF
l>ea]r Rev.
-nc O.JZ I ^ BOYS HEMSEXF) TO A MAN HE USED
l>ea]r Rev.
Tbese days ! am imo rdatioashiiK across tbe
Smerations (as wd] as 'wnbixi tbem). I am now 38.
Bad guess that would make 3^ou in your laic fifties
or so. Why should I remember such a detail?
Because ai age 14 or so, I was in love with you. A
boyhood crush like so many others? No doubt.
But that tender age. with its thrilling discoveries, is
one that somany years later has retained a special
intensity. I myself am now pati 3S, and 1 under-
stand better wfaal those teenage senrings were, and
what they might have become.
I have learned this not so much by looking deep
— or not so deep — into myself, but by seeing my-
self reflected in the eyes and experiences of others.
Some of these “others” are boys. In many ways,
certainly. 1 must represent to them some of the
same things that you represented to me, at least on
the Platonic side. Yet you, whom 1 loved, re-
mained the Untoudiable Object of my sexual
fantasies. When 1 masturbated — which I con-
fessed to you was my favorite sin — it sras often of
you that I fantasized.
It is not my aim to recount for you my life of the
past quarter century. So the picture you wfll get
will be askew. But it is precisely that skewed aspect
that fascinates me the most. And you? If you are
unable to go beyond the framework of biblical
reprimand (“Thou shall not. . you may even
wince at my words. (1 hope not.) Yet if you are
able to resurrect a bit of the sentiment — which to
me appears crystalline and pure — that attended
our friendship, your reaction wiU be more expan-
sive. You may even greet my words with bumor,
as well as appreciation. (1 hope so.) For they are
meant with kindness, special words that have lain
silent all these years waiting to be said.
I have been an atheist for almost twenty years.
So 1 find it amusing to see myself, under no
external compulsion, volunteering a confession.
My memories of you arc almost completely
taken up with moments of intimacy and sharing.
For me both then and now. these were the
moments of greatest sensuality, and frustrated
sexuality.
Oddly, the moment that seems most intense
now was' the one least associated ~mth sexual"
desire. 1 was sitting alone in the middle section
near the front of the church (1 think I could still
find the seat) during an evening prayer session. It
was a mellow one. which oicouraged solitary
meditation. You came into the row 1 alone occu-
pied, and sat down next to me. I still shiver when I
think of your putting your arm around me, and
caressing me on the arm and shoulder. 1 felt that
you loved me and cared for me. But to have you
caress me seemed like endless ecstasy. What got
me most was that wonderful sense of giving myself
to another, of being possessed, of being putty in
your hands — you who were tall, dark, and hud-
some, with a rich, full, muacal men's voice and
naturally wavy hair.
I don't remember having a hard-on, but 1
imagine 1 did. So many imi^essions collided in my
head — friend, counselor, father figure, big
brother, one who stirred special mak feelings and
promises of greater thrill, one who possessed the
hidden symbol of this special attraction between
males; yet at the same time, sinful, perilous,
impossible. I found marself at the foot of the
bridge, but unable to cross h.
I believe I tried, though- After mU, I was having
sex frequently with other boys (including one boy
in the ^urch), and fooled around, as they said,
with others. It was a virtual obsession to fantasize
about sex with boys, and men. Of course, all this
innocent sexuality got the guih trip laid on it by
Ouistianity. But 1 often wondered if you were
thinking the same thing I was thinking when the
congregation sang “I love him, I love him, be-
cause he first loved me.*’ When I sang it, I was
often thinking about you. If me could sing this
thinking of Jesus, how much Amber aftekl wau it
for me to fantasize you in has stead?
1 was in the front seat of your car, the btue-and-
sriute Pontiac. You were driving. A ooiq^e of
other boys wxne in the back. Instead of sitting hy
the dotw. I sat dose enough to you — the way girls
efid with their boyfriends — to be able to rub my
knee against your footfeet leg. You did nothing to
TO BE IN LOVE WITH
David Thorstad, aged (1955), at Goose-
berry Falls, Minnesota. And Thorstad a
NAMBLA spokesman.
thscourage roe from this rather unsubUe declara-
tion. This time I had a hard-on. Frankly. I’m a
little surprised that you never responded. I cannot
describe adequately the thrill 1 fdt at being able to
express my affection for you in a physical way. 1
must have resolved in my head that this particular
sin would be benign, even beneficial, because it
was so beautiful and felt so good. Perhaps 1
wasn’t as blatant as I think I was. Eventually, I
transferred many of tbese masculine feelings onto
other boyfriends. But I retained my sexual desire
for you for a very long time. After so many years,
the memory of it is still strong.
Tlie closest we ever came to making love was
when we slept together at the home of some
church member at a statewide Fellowship Meeting
in Little Falls. As 1 recall, we lay awake talking
about religion (what dse?). The next morning,
you told me you bad awakened during the night
and discovered my bead on your shoulder. You
seemed ^eascd'^^as’l'wasr'I-ihoughiriiow smari--
of me that my desires should follow their natural
inclination even during sleep. But was my hand on
your crotch? 1 doubt it. Yet, to touch and discover
that was what 1 desired above all. I didn’t expect
so much from you, but wanted only to express my
affection. This overnight experience meant some-
thing special to both of us.
One more experience needs to be exorcized. At
one of my intense prayer sessions, at the altar
ft^owing a service, you came over and began to
counsel me. 1 asked you what “petting” was. 1
also brought up masturbation. 1 gave rather
detailed accounts of my orgasm, location of the
event, and so forth. 1 remember telling you about
beating off in the bathtub, and crediting god with
the fact that no semen came out during my
orgasm. You were the cmly aduh with whom I
could conceive of discussiiig such matters, and it
was reassuring to me that you listened. But this
time at the altar, for some reason you yourself
became specific. You warned me about men cm
Hennepin Avenue in Minneapolis (the threat of
the Big City was stil] several years off) who might
offer me 50C if l*d let them suck me off in some
bathroom, ^voi for the fifties, that seems
.awfriOy cheap!) Such men, you said, were known
as “cocksuckers.** You were the first person to
introduce me to that word as being anything more
than an ^nthet. A pity, I’ve often thought, that
you didn’t also- introduce me to the activity. When
I gca a older, si occurred to me that perhaps
you were trying to test me, to see what my reaction
srould be. 1 have carried around a load of guih
and self-hatred because of my benighted response
to your revelation: “TTiey acAiwlly do that? How
disgustingl** Yon see, I hadn’t yet discovered the
joys of oral sex. My foolish response was based on
innocent ignorance — and. after all, how could 1,
a good Christian, let my beloved pastor know
about all my sins, such as my sexual activity with
boys? Especially since I yearned to commit titc
same dint with him. Besides, my revulsion was less
for the net itself (whidi I'm sure 1 would have
David Thorstad
16
NAMBLA NEWS FALL 1981
THE AGE OF CONSENT FROM STATE TO STATE
This is a very brief summary. It is limited to situations in which there is no force,
threat, mental incompetence or incapacity, etc., yet an offense results in spile of
mutual frerfy given consent, and no matter how earnestly the parties desired the
activity. These are sexual offenses against persons below a certain age. Consent is
immaterial, but the rationale is youthful incapacity to give consent. In New York
lack of consent is required, but a person below 17 years of age is “deemed incapable
of consent.”
AGE OF
STATE
Acrrs
CONSENT
RESULTING OFFENSE
(Researched through
(Le., other party
1979 statutes reported in
is below age
J980I
of—)
MAINE
Sexual act — Any physicaJ contact by sex organ of one with mouth,
anus, or sex organ of other; or with instrument or device manipu-
14
Gross- Sexual Misconduct
(Crim, Code, Title
lated by other.
Sexual Abuse of Minor
17-A, Secs. 251-255;
if actor is at least 5 yrs older
1976)
Sexual contact — Any .touching of genitals, other than as would
constitute sexual act, directly ot dtrough clothing to arouse or
14
Unlawful Sexual Contact
gratify sexual desire.
if actor is at least 3 years older
NEW HAMPSHIRE
[RSA Chap. 632-A, A-1
to A-8.
1975, amended in 1979)
Sexual contact — Any intemional touching of intimate parts of vic-
tim or actor, or clothing covering that immediate area, for purpose
of sexual arousal or gratification.
13
Sexual Assault
Sexual penetration — Sexual intercourse, cunnilingus, fdlatio. anal
Intercourse, or any intrusion of part of actor’s body or any object
manipulated by actor into genital or anal opening of victim’s body.
13
16
Aggravated Felonious Sexual Assault
Feioniouis Sexual Assault
if person is 13 or older and under 16
MASSACHUSETTS
“Commits an indecent assault and battery on a child under the age
of fourteen” (Note: 1980 amdt increased punishmeat and required
14
Indecent Assault and Battery on Child
CG.L., Chap. 265, Sec.
statistical reporting on this and similar o^enses to Clerk, House of
under !4
13B) (1953; amded
Rep)
Commits sexual intercourse of “unnatural sexual intercourse and
-
<G.L., Chap. 265, Sec.
23) (1697; amded 1784,
1852, 1871, 1866, 1888,
abuses a child under sixteen years of age.” (Unnatiu-al sexual inter-
course interpreted by courts to mean oral and anal intercourse,
including fellatio, cunnilingus. and other intrusions of a part of
person’s body or other objects into genital or oral opening of
another person’s body.) (The age was raised in 1893 from 10 to 16
and applied to females. Males added in 1974)
16
Rape of a Child
(S« derinitions of terms used in an
indictment: Chap. 277, Sec. 39)
1893, 1965, 1974)
(G.L., Chap. 265. Sec.
24B) (1784; amded
“Assaults a child under sixteen with intent to commit a rape, as
16
Assault on Child Under 16 With Intent
1805. 1815, 1914, 1918,
19S9. 1974. 1976)
defined in section thirty-nine of chapter two hundred and seventy
seven.” (“Rape” includes “sexual intercourse or unnatural sexual
intercourse with a child under sixteen years of age”; Sec. 39. Chap.
to Commit Rape
(G.L.. Chap. 272, Sec.
277)
35A) (1955; amded
1973)
“Unnatural and lascivious act with a child under the age of six-
16
Unnatural and Lascivious Act With
teen.” (Unnatural and lascivious act inteiprAed by courts to in-
Child Under 16
clude fellatio and oral-anal a>mact.}
(App Ct seat ques to Sup Ct)
VERMONT
Sexual act — Contact between penis and vulva, anus (M' mouth;
mouth and vulva; or any intrusion however slight by any part of a
16
Sexual Assault
fV.S.A.. Chao. 72. add-
person’s body other than fingers or any object into the genital or
Aggravated Sexual Assault
anal opening of another.
16
if other person is caused serious bodily
Chap. 71, Rape)
'
injury.
CONNECTICUT
Engages in sexual intercourse with a person who U under 15 3m. of
age. (18 if actor is person’s guardian or responsible for supervising
15
Sexual Assault in the Second Degree
person’s wdfare). Sexual intercourse means vaginal or anal inter-
(Class C felony)
53a-7I) (Amended,
1975)
course. feUatio. or cunniEngus between persons regardless of sex.
Any penetration is enough and may be by manipulating object in
genital or anal opening. (See. S3a-6S. Definitions)
(Penal Code. Sec.
Intentionally subjects another person to sexual contact who is
53a-73a> (Amended,
under IS yrs. of age (18 if actor is person’s goardian or responsible
Sexual Assault in the Fourth Degree
1975)
for supervising person’s wdfare). Sexual contact means any con-
ts
tact with the intimate parts of a person for the purpose of sexual
gratification of the actor. (Sec. 53a-6S, Definitions)
(Class A mudemeanor)
(Note: No prosecution under these sections unless offense brought
to notice of public authority within 1 yr. (increased from 3 mo. in
1976) Sec. 53a-69)
N'AMBLA NEWS FAU. 19SI
21
MARK TWAIN ON
CHILD VICTIMIZATION
In 1905, a campaign succeeded to exclude
To/tj Sawyer and The Attventutes of Huckte-
borry Finn from the children's reading room
of the Brooklyn Public Llbmry. They were
condemned as ‘'bad examples” for youth —
what would now be called In psycho-b^ble
"Inappropriate youth role models.”
When asked his reaction to this bit of blue-
nosing, Twain was typically direct:
"I wrote Tom Sawyer and Hack Finn for
adults exclusively, and it always distresses
me when I find that boys and girls have been
allowed access to them. The mind that be-
comes soiled In youth can never again be
washed clean. I know this by my own experi-
ence, & to this day I cherish an unapp>easabie
bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of
my young life, who not only permitted but
compelted me to read an unexpurgated Bible
through before I was 15 years old. None can
do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath
again.”
nant nostalgia” in the classic novels of Mark
Twain and Booth Tarkington. Bogus literary anal-
ysis aside (has J antis every really read Huckleberry
Finnl), what the doctor is prescribing is total re-
pression of children’s sexuality (he fails to realize
that children's sexuality is a cornerstone of Freud-
ian theory). Because of the "sexual revolution” (a
term he seems to have picked up from Time maga-
zine) children have become of age too quickly and
this has caused a national epidemic of child rape,
incest, drug abuse, kiddy pom, arid massive rings
of child prostitution.
— -—Ther e-is^ io-rsuch that-is.clesrly-wr ong -wi! h
book it’s hard to know where to begin. First of all
there is a slight bibliography, but almost no way to
double check sources quoted in the text. Janus
doesn’t use footnotes. He employs asterisks to in-
dicate that a source is mentioned in his bibliogra-
phy. This totally invalidates the book as scientific,
or even helpful. Much of the material is taken
from Janus’ own casebooks. Oddly all the voices
of the children he quotes sound the same, and of
course there is no way to check the truth. Every
now and then he will loss out some figures (like
300,000 children have been forced to make kiddy
porn). Oenerally there are no sources, or when
there are they turn out to be police or FBI sta-
tistics, hardly an unbiased reference.
Aside from Janus’ own casebooks he relies a
great deal upon both Jtidlanne Densen-Gerber and
T>et. Lloyd Martin, Anyone familiar with the his-
tories of these two "experts” is more than fully
aware of their total unreliability and careers of
self-promotion, Densen-Gerber wrote the intro-
duction to the book. And it is not just pro-pedo-
philes who have exposed Martin and Densen-
Gerber. New York Magazine (19 Nov *79) unveil-
ed the Densen-Gerber Odyssey House scam. To
present these two professional anti-pedophiles as
uncritically, and reverently as Janus does bespeaks
not only his biases, but al^ the fact that he makes
no pretense to a scientific, or fair-minded study.
Of course fair-mindedness is hardly Janus’s
game. _ When he covers the Revere Case his facts
are so totally off-the-wall, so totally different
from even the biased mainstream reporting, that
they can be seen as nothing more than blatant lies.
Revere, Janus phantasizes. was only a "branch”
of a "national network of child prostitution” that
was located in Houston, Texas, that could deliver
"chickens” anywhere in the country within half
an hour; better than Western Union. Readers
unfamiliar with this material should read The
Boston Sex Scandal by Mitzcl (Glad Day Books,
Boston). Both Janus and Densen-Gerber mention
NAMBLA. and needless to say it is neither com-
l^meniary nor accurate.
NEW & IMPORTANT
The Age Taboo
edited by Dan Tsang
Alyson Publications
PO Box 2783 Dept. B>5
Boston, MA 02208
$5.95
(ayailabie in October, 1981)
Includes numerous essays and documents
from the U.S. A Britain from various per-
spectives — boy -lovers, boys, feminists,
leftists — in Oie ongoing debate over
issues involved about man/boy love and
progressive movements. Very important
collection of primary documents. The
first of its kind book in the English
language.
With all these gross lies and mistakes there is
still another aspect of The Death of Innocence
that is even worse. Throughout the book Janus is
very careful to make alliances with some gay and
feminist writers. He implies that while these
"good” gays and women are against pedophilia
(which is after all nothing but “rape, prostitution
and pornography”) there is a fringe out there who
are not “good.” By ignoring the constructive
arguments and discussions that have occurred in
the gay press about boy-love, Janus is able to state
that most gays are appalled by the idea — except,
of course, for the crazed NAMBLA fringe. He
even goes so far to misrepresent Margaret Mead
and implies that she blamed women’s liberation
for an increase in incest. (Janus gets his quote
from an article in the New York Daily News and
not from anything that Mead herself has written.)
There are, of course, gays and women who are
against boy-love, and take a strong line about pro-
tecting children. But what is dangerous about
Janus* methodology is that he is all too willing to
split movements in two and pit one half against
-the.other. .His_yerv concept of a "split” is wrong
headed since there are always more than two opin-”
ions in any raovcmeni.
On the bottom line, Janus is not talking about
"protecting children,” he is talking about rebuild-
ing the family, destroying sexual freedoms (for
everyone), installing sexual repression as a cultural
norm, and a return to that knuckleheaded concept
of “innocence” that the New Right is always talk-
ing about. You can be sure that once Janus could
get rid of all those "bad gays” he isn’t going to
have very much patience with the "good" ones.
The “good women” liberationists are not going to
fare any better because Janus maintains a wom-
an’s place is in the home with the children: "Par-
ents preoccupied with their own quests may not re-
spond to children’s needs to be protected. . .
At the root of all these “problems” is the "sex-
ual revolution” — which Janus refers to as “the
sexual holocaust” — a Densen-Gerber coinage.
But the term "sexual revolution” is only a catch
phrase for anything that strays from traditional
values. Thomas Szasz has referred to the psychi-
atrist as a modem day priest. The morality preach-
ed by Janus (and all the Densen-Gerbers of the
world) is -no different from that old time religion
preached by Anita Bryant, the Pope, and Jerry
Farwell.
Not only is The Death of Innocence a sham, a
bogus “study,” and a pack of lies, it is a frontal
attack by the New Right on the advances made by
women, gays, children and any other progressive
group over the past thirty years. With outright lies
and pandering to people’s fears Janus is attempt-
ing to enforce God, motherhood and apple pie in
our lives, whether we like it or not. The issues of
child sexuality are unclear and difficult for many
people to talk about. It is important that women
and men in the feminist and gay movements con-
tinue to formulate and discuss our own ideas. But
it is equally important that whatever our positions
or feelings tliat we refute and avoid any connec-
tion with the likes of Sam Janus, Densen-Gerber.
and Dct. Martin. Failure to do so will result in
disaster. ^
NEWS NOTE
CHILD VICTIMIZATION
OR FEMALE RAPE?
A Pittsburgh elementary school teacher has been
charged with raping two male school children. The
news here is that the person charged is a female.
Kathleen Harden, 31, is charged with 5 counts of
. statutory rape. 1. count^of involuntary deviate sex-
ual intercourse and S counts of coirupiion of
minors. She has been charged with sexual activity
with a 13-year-old boy and a 15-year -old boy. Sex
took place in her house, in her car and in a school-
room closet. This is the first time in Petyisyl^stiia
history that a woman has been charged with rape.
This is a new wrinkle in the increasing enforce-
ment of the law. since females — ostensibly the
objects of legal protection — have never been
charged with statutory sex offenses. Which raises
the profound questions: is this a matter of "sexual
victimization” of children? Or, because the boys
are males and have cocks, is this matter of male
rape of a woman, as the rape ideologists would
have it? We’d like to ask the state of Pennsyl-
vania: Which one plays the Victim’s Role?
NEWS NOTE
CRAZED KID-KILLING MOM
BLOWS AWAY 15 YEAR OLD
Leonard Mosby, 15, was standing with
friends in Queens this past June when
ZB-year-otd Denise Spencer, a black Queens
mother, approached him and shot him dead.
Police said Spencer was upset because
Mosby has allegedly had sex with her 9-year
old son on Memorial Day and she thought he
should be in prison.
Spencer pumped 4 bullets into the 15-year
old. Friends described Mosby as much
younger looking than his age.
“She was the calmest person at the
scene” sd. the arresting officer, Dennis
Magooiaghan, about Spencer after her into
custody.
I NAMDLA
I Ik I P \ A f ^ mi FALL ini
NkWb
APUBLICATION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN MANIBOY LOVE ASSOCIATION
NEWS NOTE
• COPS RUIN FRIENDSHIP
take care of some business. So Billy and I went
and we bad a great time. It was Sunday and 1
could see it would take me a few more days to
complete tny business. Billy had to be in school
Monday morning. 1 had promised his Mom 1
would have him back in time. So we drove back to
Long Beach. I told Billy I had to drive right back
to San Francisco. He did not want me to go. >^e
were together every day since we met. Every free
second we were together. He begged me not to go.
I sure did not want to go. He was afraid wc would
not see each other again. I told him 1 would be
back on Wednesday.
I was about to leave San Francisco on Tuesday
night when the cops pulled me over in my car.
They asked me to get out and then oroceeded to
search my car. They found the porno pictures of
Biliy and me and arrested me. I could not call Billy
as he had no phone and I could not write as I never
did know the number on his house. Can you bc-
■^lieve>that^l-Jid-noi'kr,ow-the-address-and_l_*^as
just about living there.
Well, the police in S.F, found out I was on
parole in Long Beach. They got ahold of my pa-
role officer and had him put a parole hold on me.
It took them 90 days to get me back to Long
Beach. 1 was going crazy there. I had no way to get
in touch with Billy.
When I got to Long Beach I was given a Public
Defender for the charge of 288-Child Molest.
I asked him if Biliy was going to be in court as I
wanted to see him. He told me that one week after
I went to S.F. Billy ran away from home and left a
note that he was going to go to S.F. to find me.
J fcM-got to tell you that S.F. sent the picture of
Billy and me to my parole officer and he identified
both of us.
The court proceedings took 6 months and there
was still no word of Billy.
So here 1 am at Panon, and due here for 2
years.
My major concon is to change the laws. This is
what I want to devote my life to.
1 love young boys. For me they are the most
beautiful things on earth. I can't stand to see them
fucked around any longer. With all that bullshit
guilt-trip. I don’t want to see them hurt anymore.
As you can see 1 want (o join NAMBLA as I feel
1 can help and I know 1 will. Even though I am in
here now. I will be out soon. I will do what is
necessary for the cause.
As you can see at this time 1 have no money but
I would like to have all the flyers and info you can
send me.
i don’t receive any mail here except my Cay
Community A/ews.
One thing that would really help me while I am
here is a pen pal. 1 don’t know if you can get me
one. But if you can 1 hope.
Power to the cause,
Thomas O’Donnell
3102 E- Highland Avc.
Patton. CA 92369
Unit #32
CINCY OAY PRIDE CELEBRATION
SPLITS ON MAN-BOY ISSUE
Members of Cincinnati’s Lesbian Activists
Bureau voted against being co-sponsors of
this city’s 4th annual gay pride celebration.
'The issue dividing the lesbians from the
Greater Cincinnati Gay Coalition concerned
the discovery of a sex incident between an
adult male officer of GCGC with a minor mate
son of a lesbian. The man, whose account of
his difficulties appeared in NAMBLA NEWS
#4, resigned his position with the Gay Coali-
tion. Some lesbians demanded that GCGC
condemn the man and man-boy affairs. The
members of GCGC reached no consensus.
Other lesbians sought to keep LAB associ-
ated with the GCGC. One wrote: "t hope that
this issue does not prove to be a divisive
force which will prevent unity in the future. .
The gay community in Cincinnati, aside
from constant struggle with the basically
conservative Republican tone of the town,
faces a county attorney who is rabidly homo-
phobic. Gay radio personality John Zeh was
indicted this year for reading over the air a
satiric sketch about the use of lubricants.
YMCA OFFICIAL GETS 7 YEARS PROBATION
COMMUNITY DISPLAYS WIDE SUPPORT
FOR GERANIAN
Stephen C. Geranian, associated with the
Greater Springfield YMCA for two decades,
was found guHty of 4 counts related to inti-
rrtacy with an 11-year-old boy.
Judge William Simons sentenced Gerarv
Ian to 7 years probation, ordered him to
undergo psychiatric treatment and forbade
him to work In any capacity with children.
Defense atty. Thomas Marti nelli told the
court that a prison would not only be
uncalled for but would be an In/ustice.
^Spdngfield District Attorney, Matthew
Ryan, himself facing a prospective state
investigation for alleged Irregularities and
M>use of his office, prosecuted Geranian In
person. Ryan recommended a suspended
prison term and probation.
Geranian was executive director of the
YMCA’s Camp Norwich, the oldest Y camp in
New England. It is at this camp that Geranian
allegedly slept with a 1 1-year-old camper.
Large number of the accused friends
attended the two week trial. When he was
found guilty, one supporter gasped; “Is there
no justicel’' It was clear that Geranian, no
matter his private activities with some boys,
was regarded as an important member of the
community.
t4
NAMBLA NEWS FAIX 19S1
“On© defendant — from Boston — patd his attorney S75,000 to
buy him out of his trouble. The lawyer pocketed the money
and pleaded him guilty anyway. The man got 5 years in
prison/’
new trial was ordered for PtiUlips. r/ie trial
navar took place. Ptiiltips. orio^nally e^wen a
30-yaar prison aentence, walked out a free
man.
Tt>e stoppiness of ttie cases against many
of ttie men was slowty revealed, ft was re-
ported that the police had carefully coached
the boy witnesses as to their court testimony
— whether it was true or not. One defendant,
Robert Lang, pleaded guilty to 2 charges.
Friends figured he had been forced to do
this. At the time mentioned in Lang’s com-
plaints, Lang was either In Saudi Arabia or on
KwajeHer\ Atoll, working security for the U.S.
government. Having pleaded guilty, Lang got
four years probation. It wa a good tiick on
Connick's part. Instead of dropping the
charge against Lang, since he was clearly out
of the country at the time, Connick ptay^ up
the fictional angle — mar there must be an
interr>atlonal angle to "the ring.”
Two of the men charged, Peter Bradford of
Miami (FL), and Richard .lacobs of Boston,
turned themselves in and got released on
bail. Then took off. Jacobs, owner of the Jet
Spray Corp., Is said to be either In Europe or
Central America. Once again, we see that
wealthy or welVconnected men can avoid
prosecution (Campbell, Jacobs, Bradford)
while middle-class and working-class men
get roped into tong sentence and expensive
legal fees.
Suspicions remain about what Jacobs did.
Was he an Informer? Did he set another
Massachusetts' gay man up to save his own
neck? A Yankee-ish gentleman, who is a self-
acknowiedged-repressad boy-lover (“f would
never do it because I knew It was illegal”),
met Jacobs in 1976. They both shared the
services of a gay lawyer here In Boston.
Jacobs talked this gentleman Into acconv
panying him to New Orleans with assurances
-that-Ne'w~Orleans^was“a-wide-opert^town“
where anything goes. They went together in
Sept. 1976. The Boston gentleman, white
there, engaged in sex with a teenaged male
hustler — what he said was his first sex ever
with a mirtoT — and a few days later returned
to Boston. Most of the New Orleans men
were arrested iust a few days later. This
gentleman wasn’t arrested until November,
1976. Jacobs was arrested in October, 1976.
This Boston gentleman had recommended to
him a prominent Boston defense attorney
who is well-known for his contact with the
legal establishment. "My retainer is $25,000”
sd. the lawyer. Shortly thereafter, this at-
torney asked for $50,000 more In unreceipted
S1(X} bills out of sequence in order “to make
all your New -Orleans problems go away.”
This lawyer had assured his client he had an
inside track in the New Orleans D.A.'s office.
When the lawyer and his Boston client finally
showed up for trial in New Orleans (this
lawyer didn’t even bother to fight
extradition), they were eating in a French
Quarter restaurant when the lawyer said:
“Oh, by the way, I'm going to plead you guil-
ty.” Which he did. The Boston gentleman got
a 5 year sentence. He served 38 months in
Louisiana's prisons.
Jacobs meanwhile, having perhaps set
this guy up, was long gone. Is ft possible
Jacobs would have pushed this other Boston
guy uptront for the O. A. to nab? Who knows?
But remember, that in the existing scenaffo.
It Is essential for the cops to have rich out-of-
town men winging In to suck off the local
boys. If you don’t have these guys, the boy-
fucking looks like a hum-drum ordlrtary focal
affair. Each dragnet Is different In this regard.
The climate of the times and the depth of the
political corruption in any one burg will
gauge the extent of the lies dared Issued by
the D.A. and cops. GerassI, In Boys of Boise,
■ quoted the police as saying that Trans World
Airways had to double their number of flights
into Boise because the BL action was so hot!
As to those who cooperated with police,
there are indicafioRS that at some point In
the Investigation — probably long before the
arrests — John Reed Campbell had passed
along info to his old buddy HanY Connick.
One reporter who talked with Campbell while
he was In flight and after he was retuir>ed to
the Parish of Orleans said he was a strange
man, sort of paranoid, very nervous and not
at all trusting. But since Campbell knew
Woodall, Cramer and Halvorsen, it's clear he
was in a position to telt about the parties at
Halvorsen' s artd elsewhere.
After the arrests. Lewis Slalle went state’s
witness. The local authorities promised him
that if he pleaded guilty to 2 counts and ap-
peared as a witness for them, he would not
go to jail. In typical police fashion, they trick-
ed him. Sialle kept up his end of the b^ain,
but the authorities gave him a 15 year aen-
tence. it was Sialle, in 1978, while appearing
as a witness at a rrrotion for new trial for Larry
Phillips, who made it public that Connick and
Campbell had been old quean lovers, etc.
As soon as that went pubfic, the New Or-
leans papers had a bail with that one. The
D.A. got a taste of hts own medicine, and it
was quite bitter. In typical fashion, he turned
on the news reporters and their sources. The
major source for the Campbell-Connick boy-
friend stories was Raymond Vltlarubia Corv
nick found this out quickly and rushed to ar-
rest Vlllarubia. Connick charged Vlliarubia
with a sex offense crime with a minor. Prob-
lem was: the guy who was VHIarubia’s "vic-
tim” (boyfriend, actually) was 28 years old!
Not to worry. The crazed and desperate D.A.
had other ways. Ho went on TV and said the
reporters from the New Orleans Tlmes-PIca-
yune and the paper Itself were “whores" for
printing the stories about his alleged private
“Jife.-~Hs-cslled-'a'grsnd-iury-to-haress-the-
press. Methinks, the lady doth protest too
muchl In 1980, the charges against Vlllarubia
were dismissed.
D.A.S, if they are to succeed, must be bui-
lies of the worst stripe. Which always brings
us back to the swne question of how cops
can build cases on what some boys say, and
how do they get Info from the kids? Det. Mar-
tin, of the L.A.P.D., hangs boys over cliffs by
their feel and threatens to kill them If they
don’t talk. Other cops have their own pat-
ented-terrors that must wocK. This Is work
many must enjoy; picking up faggot 14-year-
olds, taking them down to the station, scar-
ing the bejesus out of them, making them
cry, smacking them — really, the perfect
Other for a sadistic, repressed cop! Connick
and his clique used all these methods. Con-
nick got forced confessions out of 10 boys,
mostly street kids who hustled and who felt
(quite correctly) that they were very vulner-
able. Connick. on the one hand, said that
these men abused the boys in the Boy
Scouts while he “was the protector of all
these boys.”
One defendant wrote; “As I said at the
outset, the Boy Scout label was a sham. A
rotten piece of politics on the part of Con-
nick. He ruined the lives of 9 men. Directly
hurt 9 boys, and smashed a good Scout
troop, blackening the Scouts in general. Con-
nick created havoc where there was none." In
the best tradition of District Attorneys.
As to other police methods: a toimoT Asst.
D.A. under Connick (who left after these
charges came down) left public service and
became a public defender. He wound up as
counsel for one of the accused and would
not stand down because of a perceived con-
flict of interests. Another Asst. D.A., who had
left Connlck’s staff, gave an interview to New
Orleans Magazine and said that Connick and
cops had had extensive pre-programming
sessions with the boy “victims” for them to
get their lines rigm.
A number of the boys have since said that
the D.A.’s office used numerous threats
against them. Most of the boys used by
police against these nine men were from
broken homes, dependent on social services
and/or worked the streets. These kids
honestly feared police power. And they were
forced to cooperate. This is a standard
feature, as we have seen, in all these “Sex
Ring” panics launched by crooked D.A.s.
Under the banner of "protecting the little
children,” the law enforcement agencies
regularly terrorize boys, threaten their
families with cut-offs In welfare or other
payments, or actually remove them from their
own homes and place them In foster care
situations or in police-monitored homes.
Ser^ator. Kefauver. .wit h his Senare Commit-
tee on Crime, had a few choice words about~
Now Orleans. He and his whole Committee
went down to that torpid Southern city to
take testimony. In their final report, Kefauver
& Co. said that New Orleans had “one of
America’s largest concentration of gambling
houses.” They concluded that organized
crime flourished there as in few other places,
and It did so with the help and assistance of
corrupt “sheriffs, marshals and other law en-
forcement officials.” The more things
change
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NAMBLA NEWS FAU. 19B1
LETTERS
• rrs so GOOD
• BUILDING UNITY
Dear NAMBLA and David Thorsiad,
I am writing to you to lei you know that I am in
support of your organization and its overaH pur-
poses.
I have written several articles over tlw past few
years in defense of S/M and other sexual minority
groups. Most teoently I wrote an article that ap-
peared in the May 9 Goy Community Aews.
I have been prompted to write this letter to you
by seeing a copy of your brochure that Samois
has, as well as the copies of letters that you have
sent Samois.
My own view u that sexual deviants, including
S/M lesbians, induding “ordinary” lesbians and
Gay men have no business passing judgment on or
moving against other sexual deviants as long as
safety and consent are held to.
Can you recommend to me articles which pre-
sent the facts of men who have been legally or
otherwise persecuted for being sexually involved
with males under 18? How about articles dealing
with persecution of boys who are involved with
men sexually?
I know that you have been accused of being age-
ist, It seems somehow ironic to me. Has anyone
pointed out that your critics are incredibly ageist?
They assume that there cannot be a real loving
relationship reaching across generational lines.
They assume that the men must be exploiting the
boys. They discount the possibility of honest love,
affection and passion between men and boys.
They discount the idea that the boys may actually
be in an advantaged position or that boys may
have the ability to exploit in some cases.
1 hope to hear from you soon.
Sincerely,
Janet Schrim
• GLAD TO HAVE MARK
Dear Sir:
1 am a fourteen year old boy involved sexually
with an older guy I happen to love very much. 1
am sick and tired of listening to all these stories
about boy-lovers and how perverted and sick they
- are=-^'eS! , -if. it'-wasr. U for- my- older.frien d, Marje^
would probably be dead by now.
When I was 1 1 years old my parents started to
drink real heavy, and instead of buying food they
bought a lot of booze. They were fighting all the
time, and my dad always hit me for not cleaning
the house. One night I was looking at this horror
movie on television and I got scared, so I went
over to where he was sitting and said “Dad, can I
sit with you?” Well, he called me a little faggot
and then took the belt to me. He hit me extra hard
that night because the belt-buckle hit me in the lip
and I had to have 8 stitches. (Dad told the hospital
doctor I was in a fight with another kid.)
When I turned 12 things really got pretty bad,
because my mother took my little sister and ran
away. 1 was now all alone at home with my dad.
He got fired from his truck-driving job for drink-
ing. and he took out ail his hatred on me. One
night I stayed al the local library a little later
finishing my homework . and when f got home my
dad was drunk and punched me in the face and
threw me out of the house. 1 guess a neighbor call-
ed the police because they came and locked him up
and took me to a children’s shelter.
1 was only there for a short time, because it was
there when 1 met Mark who was a youth case-
worker. He was always so nice and gentle with me.
For the first time I was being treated like a human
being. Mark asked me if I would tike to spicnd the
Chrisimas holidays with him, and I jumped ai the
opportunity. All during that period Mark treated
me like his son, taking me to the movies, ice-
skating, football games, and watching television
together. The last night together was very sad
because Mark exported I was going to be moved
to a special school for boys who didn’t have any
parents or relatives.
Weil, Mark hugged me that night and 1 could
tell he was crying too. 1 told him that night 1 loved
him and wanted to remain with him forever.
I had to go back to the shelter, but a few weeks
later I had to go to this big court room and 1 saw
Mark sitting there smiling. The judge asked me if 1
would like to live with Mark for good. I was so
bappy 1 cried.
Well 1 was now 1 3 years old and like most other
guys was jerking off every chance I could. Mark
surprised me one night and walked into my room
while I had my penis in my hand. I was scared he
would send me back to the shelter, but instead he
smiled and sat down on the bed and talked to me.
That night he took me in his arms and gently
masturbated me to my first orgasm. He held me
tight afterwards and it was the most thrilling ex-
perience of my entire life. I know that Mark is a
boy-lover, but 1 also know he loves me like a son. l
am now 14 and I have a girl friend and Mark is
very excited for me. He even gives me spending
money to take my girl friend ice-skating and to the
movies.
""“W eilr^MarV— gets^these — Bulletins— from_the_
NAMBLA and he is a member. I often look at
these and other boy-love material and 1 get sick
when I read about how some people treat guys
who love boys.
Without guys like Mark, 1 would probably be
dead today because without someone to love me
— well, life wouldn’t be worth living.
I am the luckiest and happiest kid today because
of boy-lovers like Mark.
No one told me to write this letter, and every-
thing I wrote is the complete truth. Maybe others
can leam from my experience that boy-lovers arc
indeed the real men of our society. Thank you for
reading this and you can print it if you like.
A very proud 14 year old
Carl
12 March 1981: A dozen NAMBLAites
and friends picket and trash the Kid-
Porn-Fest run by B.U. Nutty Nurse
Ann Burgess and featuring that oid
pom-waver himself, Lloyd Martin.
Mitzel and Reeves actually wound up
at the very same dinner table with
Lloyd and Beth Martin. KId-Porn
Lloyd was very upset. Nutty Nurtz
never recovered. She’s subsequently
been read out of the leadership of the
victimization MafisL Back to btood
drives for her. She can use her teethi
NAMBJLA NEWS FAIX Ml
“The man-boy pomo shots were sent to Dailas for developing.
The hi-speed developer broke down. An employee saw the
prints and made a complaint. That’s how the whole investiga-
tion got started.”
sent some pomo shots of a man and a Poy to
a film processor in OaUas.The high-speed
developer broke down. An employee al the
plant saw the pomo pix mkI made a com-
ptaint to police.
Subsequently, a warrant was issued to ob-
tain a trunk ot Halvorsen’s which was stored
at Campbell’s studio. Police thought it con-
tained more pomo pictures. What began as a
standard police investigation was scooped
up by Conntck’s office, tarted up, and turned
into a massive attack on the boy-lovers.
Four of the defendants, Cramer, Halvor-
sen, Woodali,and perhaps Bradford, had
known one another in Florida where they all
had been associated with a school years
before. They moved to New Orleans, except
for Bradford. Most of the piartying went on at
Halvorsen’s.
The main charge used against most of the
New Orleans men was that of conspiracy —
"conspiracy to commit the aggravated crime
against nature." A heavy-weight handle for
such an everyday matter.
One New Orteans native who followed
these events closely said the conspiracy
charge was unusual. He couldn’t ever recall
Its being used before in statutory sex viola-
tions. He said that in the past, when boy-
lovers were arrested, the charge was one of a
lesser degree and the penalty was probation
or 6 months in jail. The subsequent draco-
nian penalties meted out to Woodhall and
the others was a clear indication that D.A.
Connick was participating in the national pat-
tern of making boy-lovers into a targetted
political minority.
Connick maintained that all these men
were part of a conspiracy. Only those two
men <Mellor and Phillips) who were not New
Orleans residents escaped being charged
with conspiracy. They faced specific sex
acts charoes.
As to Connick’s""advSTtage in charging
conspiracy, it permitted all the accused to be
tried before the same judge. This turned out
to be Judge Schulingkamp, a hard-liner.
Through a little legerdemain, Connick arrang-
ed to have Schulingkamp hear these cases,
even though technically, in an impartial
system, the prosecutor should not be allow-
ed to select a judge or go judge-shopping. It
was Schulingkamp who handed out these
hideousiy-long sentences. Connick. had said
he would come down heavily. In public, on
any judge who gave the defendants light
sentences. The trickery of the D.A. was clear
in the case of Lewis Sialle. Sialle had no prior
record. He had cooF>erated with the D.A. as
informant and state witness. A pre-
sentencing investigation recommended pro-
bation to the court. Sialle got a 7-yaer
sentence.
Campbell, who fled New Orieans after be-
ing tipped off by the D.A. personally, was
later arrested and charged with conspiracy.
But just recenity, a judge threw this charge
out. Campbell, in 1981, still faces trial on a
sex charge.
About the same time the photos jammed
at the Dallas photo lab, a boy scout told a
New Orleans city official that he had had sex
with a scout troop leader. Police began an in-
vestigation into this. It turned out that this
alleged boy victim had been one of John
Reed Cwnpbell’s models for the Huck
Finn/Tom Sawyer Life*On-The-Mississippi
series.
Police said they took statements from 3
other boys. These boys linked Halvorsen and
Lang to sex activity. It was 9 Sept. 1976 when
police looked through Campbell’s studio for
Halvorsen’s and Lang’s suitcases which they
had heard were stored there. .On 10 Sept.,
police arrested Halvorsen, Woodall and one
other. Campbell was not a suspect then.
On 13 Sept., after hie private tete-a-tete
with the D.A., Campbeli ptacked his bags and
split town. On 14 Sept., police wrote up an ar-
rest warrant for Campbell. The next day. Con-
nick ordered the police not to arrest Camp-
bell.
On 30 Sept., the D.A. filed bills of Informa-
tion alleging that 13 men — some affiliated
with a New Orleans Boy Scout Troop — had
been involved in a massive conspiracy to
commit aggravated assault and aggravated
crimes against nature.The charges did not
issue from a grand jury.
Connick marked a handful of boy-lovers for
arrest. High on his list were Ray Woodall.
Halvorsen and Cramer. Even though Connick
had built his witchhunt by prying names out
of boy street prostitutes, the D.A. played up
the Boy Scout angle, going on au>d on about
how these men had organized a special troop
simply for their sexual pleasure. And, hence,
the press created The Boy Scout Sex Ring,
even though Boy Scouts were few and tar
between. In fact, eunong the dozen boys used
by Connick as "victims,” only one had been a
Boy Scout. Subsequently, the national office
ot The Boy Scouts of America cleared Troop
137 (ConnicK's alleged Sex Scouts) of any
hint of scandal.The Big Lie was more sale-
able than the ho-hum truth.
After the 10 Sept, arrests, John Campbell
got some special attention. When Campbell
heard through the gay-vine that Connick had
Rhoto from the fall 1979 arrest of John Reed
Campbell in Yuma, Arizona. Campbell was
returned to New Orieans. The conspiracy
charge against him was dropped. And he re-
mains in that city, busy painting and hoping
his buddy Connick will drop the remaining
boy-charge he still faces.
**John Reed Campbeli is one of New Orleans’ most successful
painters. He was also a backer of D.A. Harry Connick — and
perhaps a former lover. When Campbell heard he was about to
be arrested on a sex charge, he met with the D.A. personally
and then left town. Special favors for special friends.”
"Him on a'lisf forarresi,- Campbeil'cailed Con-::^
nick’s office and set up a meeting. Campbell
went to the D.A.’s office and met with Con-
nick and his first assistant. No one has
disclosed what was discussed in this private
session. The result, however, was that Camp-
bell fled New Orieans within 2 days. He
travelled around the country and finally set-
tled in Yuma, Arizona, where he continued to
paint, shipping the product off to New
Orleans tor sale. This w^ the fall of 1976.
After he fled charges were fifed against
him and he was declared a fugitive from
Justice. It was later learned that Connick —
who had won reelection In 1977 — hadn’t put
Campbell’s name in the National Crime Infor-
mation Computer (NCiC) until fate 7979.
Unless the status of f ugitivfty is pumped into
the NCIC, It’s virtually impossible to catch a
fugitive from one state If ho is hiding In an-
other state. Many suspect that was
Connick’s purpose.
After Connick was exposed on this lapse,
he put Campbell's information into NCiC.
Shortly thereafter, Campbell was arrested In
Arizona — on a tip from postal authorities —
and returned to New Orleans.
One of those arrested by Connick In this
witchhunt and sent to prison, wrote a
memorandum to the court about Connick’s
relationship with Campbell. He wrote:
‘'Either Halvorsen or Woodall told me that
Campbell and Connick were former homo-
sexual lovers and had been in business to-
gether. I though they were putting me on but
I saw Campbell was grinning ear to ear and
he responded that he and Connick used to be
lovers and that they did operate a health spa
and a physique magazine busirtess. Camp-
bell told me that he and Connick were tight,
and that he had some action photos of them
in sexual acts and that if I did not believe
him, he would show them to me. I was only in
■ 'New- OrteanS'-two^niQhts-and'-d!d*.noi_see.
Campbell again and did not see the pictures.
I have no reason not to believe Mr. Campbell.
. . . Campbell told me much more but I
definitely remember him saying that he and
Connick were lovers, that he had action pic-
tures to prove this, that Connick had a good
ass and he used to fuck the shit out of him."
Campbell, after his 1979 arrest and return-
to New Orieans, publicly denied reports of in-
timacy with the D.A.
What has been suggested is that Connick,
even while in the crucible of whipping up this
witchhunt, managed to tip off his old friend
and campaign contributor so he could split
town. It was not revealed if any money chang-
ed hands for this information.
As to what was behind this crazy spasm of
anti-gay and anti-BL panic, defendant Rich-
ard Halvorsen wrote; “No one but Harry Con-
nick. One reason is obvious. He was running
for reelection. He got it. Another reason is
his own gayness. By directing an attack on
the gays, he took the spotlight off himself.
He must have been aware he was suspect. A
woman Asst. D.A., who has since gone into
private practice, Ms. Bane, told me that she
md others have heard stories of Connick’s
'being gay long before these cases broke."
Larry Joe Phillips, who is now out of prison
and fivtng in Georgia, was tried because one
boy allegedly named him as a sex partner. In
fact, the boy had named two other men but
not Phillips. And the stale and Connick had
daUberatety withheid exculpatory evidence
from PhiSHps and his attorney.
The alleged victim, Danny Karlsen, told
police that he had had sex with Phillips in
New Orleans. But Karlsen was in St. Louis at
that time with another man. It was Phillips’s
court-appointed attorney, Richard Stricks,
who, in the midst of these sensational charg-
es, fought hard for his client. As a result, a
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NAMBUi NEWS FALL 19»
Harry Connick, O.A. for ttte parish of Orleans
since 1973. Is he enforcing the law against
boy- lovers to hide his own gay past?
THE 1976 NEW ORLEANS BOY-LOVE BUST:
IT GOES ON & ON
*‘A long-time resident in that city had this to say about New
Orleans: ‘As far as politics goes, New Orleans is a banana
republic’.*’
by Cinolnnatug
In the past 10 years, t^^re have been
enough anti-pedo dragnets by various crook-
ed cops and denrtenied, power-hungry D.A.s
that a pattern to their assaults has emerged.
The bones of this pattern ware first visible
in John Gerasst’s acoo^t of a similar scan-
dal In Mormon-ridden Idaho In Th9 Boys of
Boisa. But further practice has put ftesh on
this skeleton of a witchhunt scenario. As
recently as this summer, we’ve watched the
same tired script unfold on Long IslarKi with
the raid on Martin Swithlnbank's home and
the attack on NAMBLA.
There are 3 essential componerns required
for a "successful” police and official panic.
Their goal is to prejudice the public through
-outrageous-hsadt:nes-8nd-stohes^and_Jorce —
those arrested to plead guilty, plea bargain,
or inform for the state to continue the witch-
hunt.
First, all sexual activity between men and
teens must be characterized as "a ring,”
Secondly, activity must be said to be so
rare and hard to find that men from all over
the world are winging In to this town to de-
bauch and sexually abuse poor young boys.
Money is said to be no problem as long as
the men can get the boys. The boys in each
locality where a witchhunt occurs are depict-
ed as 50 luscious and special that they draw
men from all over. They must be juicy and fill-
ed with hot cum.
The motives of the men must be clearly
portrayed as malevolent and anti-Christian.
The men are said to be shipping the boys
around Soften using credit card accounts),
drugging them, using them for pom, prostitu-
tion, to snooker in new recruits, etc. if lucky,
the cops will really hit paydirt and say that
the men, after sucking the boys dry, kin
thsm. Cops have wot dreams over discover-
ing a man-boy murder ring! Sort of like The
Marines!
Yet each particular anti-BL witchhunt has
its own twists. A regular tidbit thrown in is
that, since no red-blooded Amerikan lad
would ewer make It with a Bl_ the “abused”
boys must be characterized as somowhat re-
tarded, or at least simple-minded and pliable
to the predatory wishes of rich outsiders.
This stuff really packages well, and the press
can swallow It whole for days without ever
burping up one question.
With these three essentials in place, the
cops can sweep in and arrest as many as
they choose, ruining careers, lives, smashing
families, homes, etc. Just for that headline
and possible promotion.
That these “ring” charges usually fall apart
under public scrutiny or in court means iittie.
If each crooked O.A. has his way, there wilt
be no public scrutiny, and when they get to
court, it witi only be to plead guilty and take
the outrageous sentence. Evidence for sex
charges is somethiivg pubilcity-tovino O.A.8
have scant use for.
New Orleans, In 1976, went through just
such a spasm.
New Orleans. Some have written eUsout
this city as though it were a separate country,
cut off from the rest of the U.S. by Its water-
defined geography. Some say It has man-
ners, customs and legal practices all its own.
Surely, in this fraud-ridden land, no city
has a monopoly on public malfeasance and
political corruption. Yet, If there were a con-
test, the city of New Orleans would be e top
:,f i nal i long-tim e^resident.had th ls_to_say_
about New Orleans politics: "As far as poli-
tics goes. New Orleans is a banana
republic.”
The current D.A. there is a young man nam-
ed Harry Connick. He replaced Jim Garrison
who is now a state judge.
Garrison came to fame as a result of an in-
vestigation he undertook to find out who kill-
ed JFK. When his chief suspect — a strange
tittle quean by the name of David Ferrie — up
and died on him, Garrison, feeling the heat
from the press to make his case, indicted
Ciay Shaw for conspiracy In the JFK kill.
Shaw was a playwright, an early gentrifier
In real estate, and retired director of the Inter-
national Trade Mart.
Shaw was also homosexual. Garrison kept
Shaw under indictment tor two years. Gar-
rison stirred up the homophobic angle to the
Kennedy Assassination and ruined poor
Shaw. It was an outrage even the abuse-
inured New Orleans people found too hard to
take.
Garrison himself made headlles when a
father accused Garrison of sexual assault
upon the man’s 12-year-old son at the New
Orleans Athletic Club. No charges devel-
oped. Garrison was later indicted by the Feds
for taking illegal pinbaM machine kickbacks.
He beat the rap. Garrison lived next door to
Carlos Marcello, the reputed crime boss of
New Orleans. Garrison repeatedjy denied any
presence of organized crime in that city. Gar-
rison now dispenses Justice — or perhaps
sells it.
Harry Connick first ran lor the D.A.’s office
in 1969. He lost to Garrison by just a few
votes. In 1973, he had better luck; he won. In
1978, he got his 4-year term extended to 6
years. He doesn't face the voters until 1984.
Harry Connick has followed In the foot-
prints of Big Jim. Sometime in 1976, Cont\ick
got the bee in his bonnet to go after the boy-
lovers. His witchhunt became the paradigm
for future anti-pedo dragnets.
One strong lead as to Connick’s motiva-
tion for this anti-gay and anti-BL witchhunt
comes from his own past. This leads us right
to one of the interesting angles in the case.
One of the more famous and successful
naturalist painters in New Orleans is a
gentleman named John Reed Campbell.
Campbell’s work is a staple at New Orleans
galleries. Years back, Campbell had run a
male health club. One person familiar with
this club wrote: "At one time in the '40s and
*SOs, Mr. Campbell had a health ctub at 732
Lake Ave. in Metairie. His health/youth club
was attended by many youths from nearby
Lakeview. Harry Connick was among the
membership. Physical exercjse and photog-
raphy were the keystone'of the~youth-club—
... An inner circle developed among the
membership" which used to engage in
mutual masturbation, sucking and fucking.
And photos were taken. "These activities got
out of hand, and Campbei! decided to dis-
band the club. Campbell was known to have
trunkloads of photographs in his persona!
collection which he processed in his studio
and from which copies were made and sold
to collectors nationwide through ads placed
in his own publications.”
In the '60s, Campbell launched an art and
physique magazine. Some of the health club
photos made their way Into print.
After Clay Shaw was arrested, Campbell,
who knew Shaw, was queried. His gay phy-
sique mag folded. But came the 1976 Bicen-
tennial celebration and Campbell developed
the idea of tying in his painting with the
hoopla. He advertised for young male models
to pose for his series of Tom Sawyer/ Huck
Finn paintings. One report had it that Camp-
bell even cleared his soliciting newspaper ad
copy with Connick before it ran. Some time
earlier, Campbell had been commissioned by
the Boy Scouts of America to paint a large
canvas filled with boy scouts. This he did.
One rumor has it that Campbell used an old
photo of a younger Harry Connick as the
model for one of the prettier faces in the
work.
Campbell was close to the D.A. in several
regards. He counted himself as a political
supF>orter. Campbeli said he had painted
targe campaign signs for Connick’s success-
ful election bid. This work was worth about
$2000. He also said he bought $1000 worth of
benefit tickets to help wipe out Connick’s
campaign debts.
How did Connick wind up arresting so
many men under the sensational (and false)
scare of "a Boy Scout Sex Ring”?
One gentleman, Cramer, had apparently
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NAMBLA PROTESTS
BUTLER CONVICTIONS
Thomas Hopkinson. 33. an amateur photogra-
pher and summer camp counselor, promised to
take the expensive promotional photos for gratis.
Hopkinson took the fdiotos of the boys, and then
allegedly told Jeffrey to wait outside for Butler.
He then allegedly took Christopher into a bath-
room and performed an act of fdUatio upon him.
Hopkinson accompanied Butler when be drove
the boy home. When the boy’s mother saw him in
the car, she questioned Christopher as to who he
was. Christopher broke down and udd her of the
man’s sexual activities with him. He also stated
that Butler had kissed him on several occasions .
Hopkinson fled to Los Angeles. Butler was ar-
rested for ‘Tewdneas with a minor.” and was jail-
ed. He was later released with time served when
the charge was reduced to ''annoying a minor.*’
Hopkinson was returned from Los Angles to Las
Vegas, and was eventually rdeased on SSOO.OOO
cash bail. He was charged with "sexual assault**
upon Omstopher. Nothing further has been heard
from about this case since then.
Jeffrey’s grandmother began to question the
boy about Butler when she learned that be was
homosexual, and that he bad a previous record for
coBsensual sex with boys. Jeffrey finally her
that Butler had been having sex with him since he
was lO-ycars-old. The grandmother complained to
the police, whereupon Butler was charged with ten
counU of sex with the boy. The indictments were
later dropped, and Butler was set free.
Butler was later summoned by Jeffrey’s mother
to meet her and the boy at a park, where two
policemen emerged from nearby bushes to issue an
arrest warrant charging him with 22 counts of sex
with the boy. As Butler was taken away, Jeffrey
was led away crying and screaming. The boy was
so tqiset that he had to be given sedatives for
aeveral days afterwards.
Another boy. Paul Zapuila. then 12, visited
Butler in jail and told him of the mistreatment at
the hand of police designed to get Jeffrey, himself,
and other boys to sign statements against Butler.
Paul also delivered several messages to Jeffrey
from Butler during the early pan of the arrest and
trial.
Butler bad met Jeffrey in 1977, when the-boy
was lO-years-old. through a mutual friend. Jeffrey
was then hustling [with two other boys] on the Las
Vegas strip. Butler signed Jeffrey into his act, and
found jobs for the other two boys. Butler
approached the boy’s mother, a divorcee and card
dealer in Las V^as, and she eagerly agreed to sign
the contract for her son’s panidpation in Che
acrobatic act. She also signed an agreement which
gave Butler primary care over the boy.
Butler states that he is not guilty of the charges
that the ' state - of-Nevada - has. made against him .
Several of the counts in the indictment involved
dates prior to the time Butler had met Jeffrey.
Butler asserts that because of pressures by the
boy’s family and the police, the boy felt that be
had no other choice but to hide his homosexuality
and implicate Butler.
Butler is being represented by court-app>oimed
appellate counsel Kathryn Kirkland. She is prepar-
ing an appeal, either for relief in the sentence, or a
retrial with a change in venue to a location where
homophobia is not so rampant. It is not certain
that this is possible in Nevada, a state influenced
by Mormonism.
NAMBLA condemns the attacks by Nevada
[and other states] against boy-lovers, and the anti-
bomosexual prejudice demonstrated in this case,
where the facts at trial were acknowledged to in-
volve private and consensual sexual behavior.
The sentence imposed is truly cruel and unusual
punishment in any possible sense of the phrase. It
is in reality a ‘‘death’’ sentence, though the state
does not call it that. NAMBLA asks everyone con-
cerned about police and state violations of civil
rights to show their support for Butler in his ap-
peal.
Send letters of protest to: Robert List, Gover-
nor. State of Nevada, State House. Carson City,
NV 89701, and to Charles L. Wolff. Jr.. Ehrector
of Nevada Prisons, P.O. Box 607, Carson City.
NV B97DI. Send a copy of any statements to the
PrisoDer Support Committee c/o NAMBLA.
y*JV INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO
ALE.
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NAMWLA NEWS FALL 19F1
The foUowing Is an account of the trials of the members of PIE
earfier this year and the continuing British harassment of boy-
iovers on that grim little (stand. The public prosecution of Tom
O'Carroli and others was realty r>ot so much about the picayune
activities alleged by the state to have transpired within PIE. No,
O'Carroil and the others were hounded because they were In the
forefront for advocacy in an important but unpopular cause.
Public officials are all bullies (and most are crootis) and so they,
naturally, target the weakest and most honorad>#e men in the
polity. O’Carroll was also especially targe tied berceuse he had
written a researched, brilliant, hard-hitting and toptcal book on
pedophitia.
What we see in the PIE trials, just like their counterparts here
in the U.S.. is that the so-called authorities really assume thoTe is
massive public support to uniformly condemn boy-lovers, their
advocates and those who would work for change. What we who
follow these events discover is that — exccept for the hard-core
sexually repressed (usually men) and the political pare- fascists
— diversity of opinion and willingness to understand male
relationships of all ages Is as diverse as human behavior. Slowly,
but. surely, the state Is going to lose this battle of assuming
“public opinion" is automatical ty theirs.
Much public comment compared O'Carroll’s trials with those
of Oscar Wilde. Correctly so. Tom bravely survives incarceration
at Wormwood Scrubs (Du Cane Rd. London W12 UK) while Oscar
was shipped to Pentonville (even older and more foul). While
there, Wilde commented; “It this is the way the Oueen treats her
prisoners, she doesn’t deserve to have any!" From this side of
the Atlantic — and far be it from us to turn up noses at any
culture — II is hoped that the flames licking the cities of Britain
will sweep up and consume that horrible govt, and its sovereign.
The best tonic for the British, as for the Americans, would be a
new revolution. And when that time comes, a long line of martyrs
— some Irish, others not — but including Wilde and O’Carroil,
will have their names invoked as retribution day arrives.
•THE P.I.E. TRIALS*
TOM O’CARROLL & 4 OTHERS VICTIMIZED
BY BRIT “JUSTICE”
After two major trials and five changes in the
wording of the indictment, the State, aided by a
judge and jury, finally succeeded in its intention
of convicting Tom O’CarroU of “conspiracy to
corrupt public morals.” What crime, deserving
solitary confinement for two years, was Tom
alleged to have committed? According to the
State, be had conspired with other members of
PIE’S Executive Committee to encourage adver-
— tj?er,s in. PIE’S Contac: Page to gain introduction
to children for sex. In 'a second ctimge the defen-
dants were said to have conspired to corrupt
public morals by encoura^ng advertisers in the
same publication to exchange child pornography.
At the outset, it should be emphasized that NOT
A SINGLE guilty verdict was brought on the latter
charge, but its importance in the trials lay in the
opportunity it gave to Prosecuting Counsel, David
Tudor Price, to prejudice the jury’s minds against
O’CarroU on the first, more serious charge.
The law of conspiracy to corrupt public morals
is a judge-made law, introduced in the seventeenth
century, which has never been passed by Act of
Parliament. It had lain almost dormant for three
hundred years, and. in 1976 the Law Commission
recommended its abolition. Parliament, two years
later, suspended any decision to abolish the law,
because recent governments had found, to theii
delight, that it provided a useful means of sup-
pressing the views of dissident minorities. Pro-
secutions can be brought on far weaker evidence
than is normally required, and judges have power
to adapt the law as they go along. The outcome is
that a person may not be able to know if he has
broken the law until he has been already tried and
convicted. A second, ludicrous fact is that it is not
illegal to corrupt public morals, only to oon^ire
with another person to do so. In 1970 the House
of Lords expressed its concern over the state of the
law, aaH introduced a clause ctwring that the pro-
secution must prove that a defendant had inimded
to break the law. However laudable their motives
may have been, the Lords failed to appreciate that
they were asking future juries, twelve ordinary
men and women, to perform an impossible task,
to assess what the defendanU bad been thinking
p«'haps ytsu^s previously. In the first of the pres-
ent trials the jury recognised this difficulty and
reftised to bring in any guOty verdicts at all. One
of the four defendants. David Wade, was acquit-
ted on both charges. Two others, J<rfm Parratt
and Michael Dagnall, were acquitted on the more
serious charge. They failed to agree on either
charge against Tom, or on the lesser charge
JAILED leader O'ChrroH
against John and Michael. So the three were
ordered to stand trial again.
The six men and six women in the second jury
were a motley selection, including one barmaid
and an dderly gentleman who represented a uni-
que proof of the existence of life after death.
Evidently they considered themselves perfectly
qualified in the art of mind-rendmg, for they
brought in a unanimous verdict of guilty against
Tom on the more serious charge after only three
hours. The lesser charge against him was waived.
Jaliat and Micbad were found not guilty — since
the evidence against them was pracdcalty non-
the jury could scarcely do otherwise —
and they were released.
If Tom did conspire to coiTupt public mmals,
whom did be conqnre with? Certainly not with
himself, nor with the three other defendants, who
were found not gnihy. But the State had ac-
counted for possibility, and had named two
further m.'mhf.rii of the Executive Committee in
the indictment. Conveniently for the Prosecution,
neithrr of thcse monbecs was availabie to defend
himslf : Keith Hose, ex-Chainnan of PlE lives out-
side the UK. and David Grove, who had been
PIE’S Secretary, died of cancer last year. Two
weeks befcm David’s death, his solicitor was con-
descendingly informed by the Director of Public
Prosecutions that David would not be required to
attend the trial. Yet his name was kept on the in-
dictment. Judge Leonard in his summing-up
speech, described the evidence against Keith Hose
as “a straw in the wind,” clearly implying that he
could not have been a co-conspiraior . He was
more equivocal about David, so we must assume
that the jury thought him to be the other con-
spirator.
How were Tom and, presumably, David alleged
to ^ve conspired together? Well, one of David's
duties had been to collect PIE’s'maiitbpen-the iet—
tens, and distribute them to members of the Ex-
ecutive Committee. Some letters were from mem-
bers wanting to place adverts in the Contact Page.
Very occasionally a member might, for example,
wish to meet a family with children. Since there
was a possibility that the member’s intentions
might be sexual. Tom would point out that this
was illegal, and suggest that the advert was altered
so that it could not indicate that any illegal act was
intended. Three months later, the amended advert
would be duly published. The Prosecuting
Counsel pounced on this point, accepting the
legality of the altered advert, but claiming that
Tom must have known the original intention of
the member. Therefore, in his eyes, the altered
advert was nothing more chan a legal smoke-
screen. Had this view been correct, it is ironic to
note that the Prosecuting Counsel did not demon-
strate one single instance of sex between an adult
and a child as a result of the Contact Page. Nor
was any account taken of the fact that Tom had
been answering at least six hundred letters a year,
and been making numerous public speeches, as
well as holding down a responsible and demanding
job. The Contact Page only constituted a small
and very hurried part of his work in PIE. In such
circumstances occasional errors of judgement arc
inevitable, but they do NOT warrant a prison
sentence.
To make the conspiracy part of the charge stick
— two people are necessary, remember — David
Grove, conveniently dead, was a necessary ac-
complice. Having read the proposed advert from
members, and, having presumably read the pub-
lished versions THREE MONTHS LATER,
David mtist, according to the Prosecution, have
noticed that their wording had been altered. And,
by letting them pass, he was automatically a co-
exynspirator. Had David been ahve to defend him-
self. the sheer inanity of this assertion would have
been glaringly obvious. He never showed particu-
lar interest in the Contact Page, and. at most.
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9
NAMBLA VICTORY!
GROAT WINS EARLY PRISON RELEASE
David Groat after his July. 1981, nelease from
prison. NAMQLA work helped gained his
meantime, be contacted NAMBLA- He spoke
about his case at Boston and New York NAMBLA
meeting. He marched with the NAMBLA contin-
gent in the 1980 Gay Day Parade in Manhattan.
Groat's Pittsfield Public Defender told him to
plead guilty to all charges. He told Groat that the
■ D.A..woald.be-lgnieDr and ask for no more than a
l^year sentence. Groat rejected the idea of forego-
ing a trial.
Through NAMBLA. a direct appeal went out to
the membership and SlOOO was raised to susure
Groat proper l^al counsel.
In the fall of 1980, Groat retained Atty. Michael
Ripps who agreed to go to trial and fight the
charges. Seeing they’d have to make a case in
court, the D.A.’s office suddenly made noises
about a lighter plea bargain. Groat indicated he
might be willing to plead guilty to a misdemeanor
charge, but he adamantly refused to plead to a
rape charge even if it meant he could avoid jail.
The D.A.'s office did a fast about-face and
brought the charges to trial in Nov. 1980. After a
2-day jury trial before Mass. Superior Court
Judge William Simons. Groat was found guilty on
all three counts. Days later, Simons sentenced
Groat to 2 years in the Berkshire County House of
CcMTections. In Massachusetts prison practice, on-
ly 509I» of a house of ocurectiotts sentence is served
before release.
Groat was initially held in protective custody on
the assumption that a homosexual boy-lover
would be subject to harassment and intioiidation
from other inmates. After a few werics of this
23-hour-a-day lock-up. Groat sought release into
the general prison population. The Berkshire jail,
which has an average populaton of about 75 in-
mates, all white, usually houses young men doing
short time for minor offenses. The average age of
the inmate is about 29.
Groat was quickly accepted by the other imates.
Groat said that in his months in the prison he had
only two iH-cd>lenis — tme arith another inmate
with whom Groat spoke at length to get the guy
past gay stereotyping, and with an intractably
homophobic guard.
Groat turned into a kind of iaShoose lawyer,
assistixig tbe younger mmates with awareness of
their rights and their legal options. Oroat’s ex-
perienoe dearly demonstrates that the automatic
assumptions that gay men and boy'lovers are in-
mate targets are wrong-headed, and that each
situation has its own qualities.
NAX<BLA continued working for Oroat*s free-
dom. Boston gay activist attorney John Ward, of
the Oay A Lesbian Advocates and Defenders,
bxdc up Groat's appeals.
On June 26, Ward appeared before Judge
Simons and grgued for a revoke and revise mo-
tion. No one from the DA.’s office bothered to
sbow^up-at_this hearing. (One item Groat had
shared with NAMBLA was that tKe“DTX., th?"
First Asst. D.A. and the Sheriff of Berkshire
County were all members of the same family.)
Atty. Ward had -thought with him Dr. Jonas
Fields, a Boston psychiatrist who is an expert in
the area of male sexuality. Fidd told the court that
tbe impact of a sexual encounter between an adult
male and a sexually active leenaged male might
cause guilt and anxiety, but only because of the ex-
isting social taboos on such encounters. As for any
long-range impact. Field denied tbere'd be any
tratuna or permanent psycbologica] effect. This
was an important point, since Simons had origin-
ally sentenced Groat because he accepted the
state’s argument that man-boy sex acu were harm-
ful to youth.
Ward also submitted two letters by prison
guards that tastifted to Groat’s good work in the
jail'. A supportive letter from the Director of tbe
Berkshire County Court Clinic was also given the
court.
Groat himself had written the Judge a letter. In
it, OrosU Smons about his experiences prior
to incarceratioa. aiul while behind bars. **1 was
subjected to a physical assault prior to the trial by
7 b(^ one night while out walking.
Shortly before this incident, 1 was subjected to a
violent and forcible rape by an adult male, who
screamed obscenities at nte in reference to my sex-
ual orientatioa and iscideat with the boy. . . .
Here [m prison] [ watch others whenn 1 reused
become tntter as tbeir sentences go on. These t»ce
happy gnd easy-going people beemne unlike them-
selves as the time in which they have learned their
lessons has passed, but the incarceratioa con-
tinued. Your Hoom-, I do not want to become like
these peof^. I do not want to become bitter, or to
take a negative attitude whidi could have a hann-
ftil effect. , . . I. truly fear that continued in-
carcentkm could have such negative effects on
me. ... I wish that I could show you eadi thing
that has occurred in my life during these past two
years, but this is impossiUe. AD that I can do is
teD you about these things, and hope that you can
understand apd believe them.”
While in prison. Groat had also taken it upon
himself to build up the prison correspondence net-
work for NAMBLA. Based on the 125 men in
Mass, prisons and treatment centers, NAMBL.-^
estimates that there are at least 5000 men serving
time in the U.S. for activities similar to that which
sent Groat to jail. While in prison, Groat said he
was receiving up to 30 or 40 letters a day from
other gay inmates. Groat often got more mail on a
daily basis than the rest of the prison populaiion
combined .
On 6 July. 1981, Groat was ordered released
from prison. Judge Simons, who was sitting in
another county, personally drove to the jail to de-
liver his release order to the Sheriff.
Groat had served only 7 months of his 2-year
term. Simons also revised all 3 sentences to time
served and ordered concurrent probation for
Croat on all three counts.
There has been diverse speculation as to wh\
Groat’s motion for early release succeeded. Groat
himself thinks that it was peutly as a result of his
organizational skiDs while in prison that the
Sheriff came around to wanting his early dis-
charge.
Wayne Sunday, a New York NAMBLA mem-
ber who has closely foUowed Groat’s case from
the Stan, said: “My feeling was that they wanted
to get rid of David after 6 months. David w-as well-
liked by aD the guards, except for the one
homophobe. And all the inmates liked him a lot.”
Atty. John Ward had this to say: “The Judge
frit that any more jail time would exceed proper
punishment fm the offense. I think he was im-
pressed by David’s letter. We made a showing that
the effect of consensual sex with an adolescent is
minimal except for the brouhaha caused by the
police and courts. The real lesson is that if people
weren’t behind Groat, I never would have heard
of him and I couldn’t have helped him. We’re
ahead of the game by our own network. It’s
significant that there was a support network.
Sometimes, occasionally, it works. This was one
of those times. I’m glad he’s out.’’
Judge Simons, in March of 1981. presided at the
sensational Springfield <MA) trial of Stephen Ger-
■"luitian" (see ~f>fews "Atoresii - who rdespit e " the - sehsa —
tional charge of sex with an II -year-old boy at a
YMCA camp, had wide community support in his
fight with the D.A. Largely because of this out-
spoken community support. Gerantian was given
a suspended sentence. Judge Simons might have
been sensitized on this issue as a result of this amd
a growing number of other similar cases.
As Groat himself documented before and dur-
ing his incarceration, there has been (and con-
^ues to be) an unprecedented increase in the
number of men arrested in Massachusetts for
Btntutory sex violations (no force). Of those ar-
rested, gay men are a disproportionately large
group. Some legislators and judges appear to be
growing impatient with local, and usually corrupt
county District Attorneys, who shower indict-
ments down upon those for private sexual beha-
vior. Activities which would not be a matter for
criminal justice purview in other districts clog
criminal courts in Massachusetts. For example,
the Springfield County D.A. has over 1700 people
in that county under indictment. This is 5 times as
many as are under indictment in Suffolk County
(Boston) which has 3 times the population. It is
clear these D.A.s manipulate the criminal justice
system to nail their critics and terrorize those (gay
men and boy-lovers) whose persecution wiU win
sympathetic press. One way judges can respond to
these over-indicting D.A.s is to step-up the process
of early release. This may have played a role in
Groat’s release. Certainly, the Berkshire County
D.A. (Roberto) and tbe Springfield County D.A,
(Ryan) have been the most malfeasant in office in
pursuing men who have had consensual sex with
Groat has relocated to New York City where he
BOW heads the NAMBLA Emergency Defense
Project. He also continues to develop NAMBLA’s
Prison Project.
When asked what he had to say about his ex-
periences with the l^al process. Groat said;
“Prison is just a waste. It’s just warehousing. You
Just sit and sit.’’
8
NAMBLA NEWS FALL MS]
As N AMELIA NEWS zoes to press fAugJ, no decision had been reached by Justice Steefe on The
motion to remove Bichard Petuso from his status as a Sexuatiy Dangerous Person.
DECISION AWAITED ON PELUSO SDP HEARING
The Sexual Treatment Unit at
where Richard Peiuso has been
locked up since 1977.
Bridgewater Correctional Institution
— so they call it.
On May 7 througb 10, 1981, a hearing was held
in Suffolk County Superior Cotirt before Judge
Waller Steele for removal of the SexuaUy Danger-
ous Person (SDP) status of Richard Peiuso.
In 1977 Peiuso admitted fellating and mastur-
bating two boys then aged 1 1 and 13. No coercion
was alleged and the boys were said to have
solicited sexual relatioits with him. For these acts
.^Relusoi was found guilty _ on three counts of
statutory- rape of a child under 16 and given three
concurrent )5-io-25 year sentences and two counts
of sexual assault on a minor with two concurrent
sentences of five years.
Declared “sexuaUy dangerous" by the Com-
monwealth in 1978, Peiuso has spanit the last three
years in Bridgewater Treatment Center, a max-
imum security prison. The issue in the hearing is
whether the incidence of consensual sexual rela-
tions with children fulfills the statutory re-
quirements of SDP which are: a) violence and like-
ly repetition or b> compulsion and repetition or c)
aggression and compulsion and d) a likelihood to
inflict harm in the future.
Peiuso was represented “pro bono" (free) by
Attorneys Richard landoli and Kim Ducharm.
NAMBLA organized the defense and contributed
S8S0 out of its Emergency Defense Fund to pay
for subpoena fees and other related costs.
NAMBLA’s co-spokesperson Tom Reeves said
on the importance of the hearing: “At stake is
whether the mere occurrence of sexual relations
with a minor constitutes an aggressive act, justify-
ing a SDP rinding."
The state’s case was argued by Linda Katz of
the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office. The
Suffolk County district attorney’s office which
usually handles such hearings had disqualified
itself because of its interest in the case. Both sides
relied on the testimony of a number of psychi-
atrists and psychologists.
Dr. Moore, chief consultant to the Common-
wealth on SDP, testifying for the Commonwealth,
originally examined Peiuso in 1977 and determin-
ed him to be SDP. Moore said Pehiso is mainly at-
tracted now to older boys.
Moore testified that Peiuso is not interested in
treatment at Bridgewater and should be allowed to
serve the remainder of his sentence in a correc-
tional institution. On cross examination, Moore
said of his 1977 interview that Peiuso was fearful
of Walpole and that he had desired commitment
as SDP in order to be protected. Moore knew of
no evidence of trauma caused to the boys involv-
ed. Case law has until now included “sexual ad-
vances" as constituting harm.
Dr. Wniiaih~Nagier~a~siaff-psychiatrisr-"at—
Bridgewater, said Peiuso has made no progress.
He testified that there had been a consensus
among the therapists that there was no change in
Peluso's makeup and that he is likely to have sex
again with boys under 16. He pointed out, how-
ever, that none of the acts Peiuso was accused of
were necessarily aggressive.
Nagler maintained since there had been “not
one whit of progress" made by Peiuso from the
1978 SDP rinding, he is today SDP.
Peiuso had repeatedly requested a treatment
plan outlining the goals and objectives of both the
individual and group therapy he was receiving.
Unable to get such a rqmrt, he dropped out of
therapy after two and a half years. Michael Mc-
Quire, an administrator at Bridgewater, testified.
“Due to a lack of staffing, there is a backlog in
preparing treatment plans."
Joel Frost, the co-leader of P^uso’s therapy
group, testified that Peiuso is unlikely to be
violent. He said Peiuso has made progress in
openly accepting his homosexuality and in taking
responsibibty for his actions. Frost admitted this
progress was not noted in his written evaluation
on Peiuso.
Dr. Charles Silverstein, a psychologist and
aathor of several books on homosexuality and
founder of the New York Gay Mental Health
Clinic, tq>peared as an expert on sex between men
and boys and testified on the imerpretation of psy-
chological tests administered to Peiuso. After re-
viewing these test results, he found no evidence of
aggressiveness but rather a low-grade depression
and kmdiness.
Relationships with bosrs, Silverstein said, can be
either nurturing or harmful depending on their
context and milieu. Under cross
examinationSUverstein said sexual relations bet-
ween men and boys are often non-harmful and
nurturing.
Dr. Richard Pillard, Director of Psychophar-
macology at Boston University, Professor of
Psychiatry and one of the founders of the
Homophile Health Service, testified that Peiuso is
_noi - sexuaJly^dang erous .^.having shown neither
compulsiveness nor aggression. PiJJard com-
mented further that Peiuso had formed adult
homosexual relations, a significant indicator of
progress though he is stiU atuacted to late
teenagers. He added that a treatment plan is
necessary and important for a patient committed
to a treatment center.
Dr. William Mallamud, Clinical Director of the
Solomon. Carter and Fuller Mental Health Center
and a Professor of Psychiatry, also found Peiuso
to be neither aggressive nor compulsive and there-
fore not sexually dangerous.
Peiuso testified that in Bridgewater he had for
the first time come-out to himself and publicly in a
therapy group. He said that he loved boys and had
in the past made a number of mistakes in judg-
ment and now would have acted differently. In
Bridgewater he said he had formed adult homo-
sexual relations and was in contact with a number
of gay community groups and of these he was very
proud.
In summation, Katz, arms waving, said that
though some sex with boys may be northarmful, in
her mind what Peiuso bad done was obviously
wrong, that be bad "preyed" on boys and had
violated their trust in him by having sex with
them. She argued it was in the best interests of
both the Commonwealth and Peiuso for him to re-
main at Bridgewater, avail himself of the treat-
ment programs there, rather than spend the re-
mainder of his sentence in a prison.
landola pointed out that none of the experts
testified that Peiuso had over acted tiggressively in
his relations with boys. Peiuso he said had made
progress at Bridgewater and should be allowed to
serve the remainder of his sentence in prison.
Judge Steele made it clear that he was interested
in bearing testimony on .whether sex between a
man and a boy could be harmful or not. Steele did
not make a decision pending his study of the
documents and testimony. Under the SDP statute,
Peiuso could be helrl for life at Bridgwater. If
found not to be SDP, Peiuso would be sent to
Concord prison fox reclassification and would be
eligible for parole in 1987.
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NAMBLA fSTEWS FAXJL U«I
STATEMENT IN SUPPORT OF CIVIL RIGHTS
FOR NAMBLA AND ITS MEMBERS
iuty 1981
The North American Man Boy Love Associa-
tion (NAMBLA) and a number of its officers and
members have been subjected to uncons tituti onal
harassment and the vicriation of individual and
associanon rights by Che FBI. local and state
police in several areas, and by many newspapers
and other media This intdudes violent raids on
private hones, the illegal interFOgarion of
NAMBLA members in several states purely to
gain information about the legal activities of
NAMBLA, attempts to monitor meetings and
seize membership list':., and false statements about
NAMBLA’s involvement in iOega] activities in-
cluding pornography and transporting minors for
**immoral*’ (sexual) purposes.
NAMBLA has acted whtdly within tbe law to
work for emotional and legal support of men and
boys suffering heavy oppression because of their
sexnid orientation and Hfestyle; to seek Co educate
the public about intergeneratiooai relationships;
to take stands on a variety of issues including the
age of consent laws, the military draft, U.S.
imperialism, civil rights of cfafldren and youth,
protection of children from abuse by parents,
teachers and others, etc.; and to demonstrate at
gay pride parades in New York and Boston, at the
lesbian and gay march on Washington, at the
mardi on the Pentagon to protest U.S. policies in
B Salvador, and elsewhere. NAMBLA is an open
organization which does not act secretly.
NAMBLA has scrupulously avoided any activity
which could be construed as illegal NAMBLA has
refused to a ootrespondence among
members and has not allowed the exchange of in-
formation boys or their photographs, and
certainly has not exchanged or allowed the ex-
change of pornography. NAMBLA has not trans-
ported a single boy or man anywhere for “im-
moral" purposes. Even its social gatherings have
been free of any interchange among men and boys
which might be miacoostmed. NAMBLA is a legal
organization engaged in civil liberties, educational
and policical work.
The undersigned organizatioos and ituhviduals
within tbe lesbian, gay, civil libertarian and pro-
gressive movements stand in full solidarity with
NAMBLA. While we do not necessarily endorse"'
man-boy sexual retationships or the genoal pur-
poses of NAMBLA. we acknoudedge those pur-
poses to be legitimate aims of a Legal group acting
for civil rights, politicai change and education.
It is unconscionable and itl^al, therefore, for
the FBI and other law enforcentent agencies to
harass NAMBLA officers and members or to
smear NAMBLA in tbe media as a “sex ring” or
an organizatioo estabUsbed for tbe “exploitation
of children.” It is particulariy offensive for FBI.
police and media to sdr up public hatred by such
false statements to the point that NAMBLA mem-
bers are physically harmed or threatened — as
took place in Baldwin Harbor, New York, on July
20 and 22.
The undersigned individuals and organizations
demand that all law enforcement agencies and
media respect the rights of NAMBLA as an or-
ganization and the civil rights of its members. Wc
rlienand an end to lies in the media and a retrac-
tion of those false statements concerning
NAMBLA or its members which have already ap-
peared. We demand an end to the miUion-dollar
FBI and police campaign (“project Hawk")
against NAMBLA and NAMBLA members. We
demand that money be instead used to investigate
and prosecute the hundreds of thousands of un-
solved murders and violent assaults on children,
women, pec^ie of color and lesbians and gay men.
We urge all who support civil tiberties and sex-
ual freedom to join us in demanding an end to the
slander and illegal attacks on NAMBLA. We call
for a united front against such FBI, police and
media tactics. If these things can be done to
NAMBLA, they can be done to all lesbian, gay
and progressive groups. Today, the man-boy
lovers; tomorrow, the rest of us.
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NAMBLA NEWS EDITORIAL;
EXPECT THE WORST, LIVE FOR THE BEST
by Tom Reeves
Men who follow their hearts and awaken their
consciousness as boy lovers take a very dangerous
path. Any man who follows bis natural and
wholesome feelings for boys into any erotic
activity has gone beyond the bounds of
“normal,” acceptable social behavior. This is true
today throu^oui the western world, and in most
other places which suffer from the imperialism of
the west. It is true in conservative, liberal, radical,
socialtsi and communist cardes. This sttuaticm is
unlikely to change quickly or radically. We are
going to live with sudi oppressicm gn^obably for
the rest of oui lives. Anyone who bdicves that
legal and soda! approval of our radical lifestyle is
just around the comer is a utopian fool. So, when
you kiss the boy you love, when you fondle him in
your sleeping bag beside the fire, even when you
like naked beside a boy you have never dared
touch, you have gime beyond the pale. You. have
l^aced yourself outside the normal protections of
courtesy, ctvib'ty, humane treatment and legal
rights.
I have chosen to take that step. So have most of
you who read this. I have done it because I was
compelled to do it: morally comxwUed. spirituaUy,
eniotipnally , _ physically.^ 1 AM a lover of boys.
That love spans the whole'range ofhiimaircmo^
tions, including that wonderful mystery of sex. To
deny the expression of these emotions is to deny
myself. Having taken the step of afrirming my
identity, however, 1 must not delude myself about
the consequences. There are men who deny them-
selves such an identity, and who all their lives
forego any physical contact with boys or any
appearance of true intimacy with boys. They are
the mock “Big Brothers” and the jock boys’ club
leaders. They NEVER step over that line. By a
closeness to boys and by accepting the hypocrisy
of society, with its boy scout creeds, they have
found a means of maintaining some siuiity. 1 do
not criticize them for that choice: it is a reason-
able, logical, sometimes necessary decision for
men who cannot take on the full oppression of
being sexual/social pariahs, outlaws considered
worse than mass murderers. It is NOT reasonable,
however, to attempt a half-way stance. If you are
going to act on your love for boys in physical and
emotional ways that validate your identity, you
must realize what you have done. There is no turn-
ing back. You have stepped over the line, and you
must accept what may follow. You can struggle
against it, light, stand proud and demand to be
treated as a human bemg, but do not be surprised
when they Kbd irou, slander you, jail you, curse
you, steal from you. beat iKni and even muider
you.
1 am amazed and angered by NAMBLA mem-
bers who throw up then- hands in dismay at the
“sdandal” in New York. Who feel somehow that
something terrible and unexpected has occurred
when newspapers label us a “sex ring.” link us
incorrectly with sex acts m pornography. WE
ARE ourselves a scandal. NAk^LA is a scandal.
We who love boys are the scandal. There is
nothing beyond that which can be scandalous.
NAMBLA has taken effective and unified action
against the current media, police A FBI attacks.
We can be proud of that. The attack itself and the
media ties should not create even a ripple of sur-
prise or worry among us. Our counter-attack and
its effectiveness should re-enforce our collective
pride and identity.
1 am also saddened by the lack of preparation
many men make for the inevitable encounter with
reality. One must, without being personally para-
noid. assume the worst at all times, but live as
though the best will happen. By i hat I mean, one
mtist assume tapped phones, brutal interrogation
of boys & parents, surveillance of homes, etc. In
that sense, while being as “out” as I have been on
TV and elsewhere, 1 have been “discreet.” care-
ful. whatever you want to call it. SOME man/boy
lovers stress “conservative” lifestyles, 3-piece
suits, “respectable” research and scientific
inquiries about boy-love (as though that would
protect them from the holocaust), yet these same
men can make incredibly bad judgments about
day-to-day flaunting of sex with boys — especially
in “passing around” boys from one man to
anotlwr. That is something 1 understand, but I
cannot for the life of me see how thoughtful men
who love boys wotdd do it. Men have not prepared
their boy lovers for the cruelty of polioe raids and
questioning. Some men have not even admitted
their gayness to the boys. Some have not discussed
the radical nature of their sexual rdationships or
society’s Ukdy reaction to it. This is absolutely
inexcusable. The man is taking risks when be
"enters’such a r^tion£hip,-Bui.so^is.the^faoy._The
boy is risking exposure to friends and family who
may reject him. He is risking incredibly traumatic
interruptions to his Ufe in the middle of the night
by police with guns. He is risking severe scars
caused by the reaction of society. He needs to
know that, and to be prepared to deal with it. Any
man who fails to prepare the boys be loves for all
the possible consequences is doing both himself
and the boys a grave barm.
Finally, there are those who flee NAMBLA at
this hint of “scandal,” as though they had
thought NAMBLA was some sort of proper sew-
ing circle. The raids and arrests have not been
caused by NAMBLA. Such raids and arrests have
gone on always and tb^ will continue. NAMBLA
has been damaged by some of its thoughtless
members, sot the members damaged by
NAMBLA. Those members are entitle to our
support. They have done nothing wrong. But it is
they who need to acknowledge the solidarity of
NAMBLA. not NAMBLA’s being threatened by
their cases. Once you have sex with a boy, you’ve
stepped over the line. Takizkg a subscription to
NAMBLA NEWS is not the brave step — it is a
necessary and protective action. Standing together
now, we can terek the chain of heavy police and
media attack. But some men will go u> prison,
both NAMBLA members and non-NAMBLA
people. MirMiescannot be worked. Millions of
(krilars ore not flowing our way. What we do and
who we are — these are IBegal, scandalous and
tabem. 1 ike Jews in Nazi Germany, we eaxmot
dtange we deny who we are. For many
of us the emotional and moral exists of doing that
are too great. We cdioose to be ourselves regardless
of the heavy physical and economic liabilities. But
we should make the ditrioe carefully and fully
cognizant of the consequences.
I suggest a few practical and essential steps for
aE boy lovers.
1) Z>o not hide the reality from the boys. Talk
with them about being gay, about society’s pos-
sible reactions, about your own pride in who you
are. The less certain you are about yourself, the
more conflicted you are, the more you hide from
yourself and the boys your consciousness and the
radical nature of your relationship, the more likely
it is you and/or the boy will crumble under attack .
2) Prepare the boys for questioning by police.
Explain to them that p>olice will lie to them about
you, that police will threaten the boys with arrest
and other troubles, that boys need not ever say
anything at all about their sexual lives, that they
need not go with police or answer any questions.
All of this sounds very simple — and most boys
wdl respond initially that, of course, they would
not talk about sex to a policeman. But authority
has been drilled into them at school and at home,
and most peof^e buckle quickly under the lies and
harassment of policx. Considerable discussion —
maybe even role playing — is necessary to prepare
boys fox this situation. Obvioxisly, if you have a
good relationship with the boys, there is no need
to tell boys that they can’t sec you if “anybody
Ends out,” or otherwise to indicate that the boys
will get into trouble if discovered. That can seem
too much like “threats” rather than lovirvg advice.
1 suggest preparing the boys for the brutal experi-
ence of police abuse, and then making sure they
are fully and emotionally prepared for their rela-
tionship with me. The best advice is to icU the boys
to follow their hearts and their brains when
'questions^ — ndi~toTdvise‘them'io-licT-Trusr=ii~
the central issues on both sides.
3) Finally, all men who love boys must take
steps in advance to deal with sudden police raids.
Have an attorney ready to meet you in the middle
of the night. Rnd an attorney who has a progres-
sive record on civil liberties issues. Don’t trust
attorneys who emphasize money up from or who
suggest extremely oppressive strategies of claiming
insanity or exchanging information for freedom,
etc. Better a civil liberties attorney than a “big-
gun” or “old-boy” type who claims connections
with the D.A.’s office. Those connections never
mean anything more than humiliation to the boy-
lover and his friends. Also, make preparations for
your house, your car and other possessions.
Where possible, have straight friends and family
members be ready to help you with regard to your
employer, etc.
These suggestions are so mundane as to seem
unnecessary. For some reason, men who love boys
often fail to be realistic about the likely conse-
quences of their lives. Better to make these
practical preparations than to bewail scandals or
to give the pretense of being a “big brother. ”
It is my conclusion — after talking to hundreds
of men in prison or about to face prison — that
those of us who take the most radical, head-on
^>proach, have the most luck in dealing with these
matters. It is the closetted, terribly fearful, but
careless boy-lover who usually finds his world
crumbling around him. The world has already
crumbled once you step over the line. You have
made your choice. Face the awful facts around
you, and go on living and loving, bravely, bm
wisely.
NAMBLA NEWS FAIX 1981
5
Transcripj of staremBni by Harold to He*v York
dry cotnmuntry meetins, held in the parlor of the
Washington Stjuare Methttdisf Church. July 29.
1981. The statement is a description of the raid on
the A Mens residence and Harold's questiomng by
police.
STATEMENT BY BOY VICTIM OF POLICE TERROR
To start it off. I’ll tell you how the cops treated
US. They came to the bouse on the 1 1th, July 11th.
Me and my cousin was downstairs washing the car
and they came up to us without showing any
identir>cation and grabbed us and bning us
upstairs, to wail out on the porch for two and a
half hours. And then Karl and two other cops
came down and they said the>’ were locking him
up. They showed no proof of what they had on
him. They said they were going to sit down and
talk to us, that everything was OK. They left.
They didn’t talk to anybody. They questioned my
cousin and two friends when they were sitting
there when they was searching the house. And
then they took them to the police station when
Karl went, and then before they all left they took
me and another friend of ours down to the police
station and questioned us. We didn’t even know if
they were cops or not. They didn’t show any iden-
tification until I saw the police car upstairs. We
didn’t know if they were cops or nothing. And
then we got done there about two, three hours
they was questioning us all. My mother asked if
she could've came with us. The cops said no, you
don’t have to. So they didn’t let my mother come,
so I was there, they were questioning me. Before I
went to the police station 1 passed out on the
porch. And then they took me to the police station
and started asking me all kinds of questions. 1 was
confused then. 1 didn’t know what to say or any-
thing. They made me sign a statement on every-
thing. Then they took us home.
About two days later Nassau County cops came
up to the house and wanted to question my two
cousins. And they wanted me to go with them.
And they only had rights to take them to the Town
Hall, it turns out they didn’t take us to the Town
Hall. They took us down to Kingston, to the state
barracks down in Kingston. We was sitting there
for three or four hours, and then they took us to a
bar. They was sitting in the bar, drinking, asking
us questions and everything, while they was on du-
ty and drinking. They had two pitchers of beer
while they was questioning us. And then they took
us back to the police station. They was question-
ing us. And this one cop, if be was a cop or not —
I don ’t know — he would question me, and ail I’d
been telling him was “No.” He turns out. he was
telling me that 1 was lying. I was telling him “1
ain't lying!” So be kept on saying that I'm lying
and everything, and then this other cop. Gordie or
whatever his name was, he came into the room,
and while 1 was sitting there the one cop said,
“This is a waste of time with this one. He ain’t
saying nothing.” So. we was out there, and about
a quarter to eleven, they had a marked car take us
home — a cop take us home — after eight hours,
without anyb^y knowing where we was at or any-
thing, they finally took us home. They didn’t tell
them they were taking us down to the state bar-
racks.
Question from audience: When the police first
came to your house, did they search the house?
EMd they go through your belongings and
everything?
Harold: They went through everything.
Question: Did they show anybody a seach war-
rant?
Harold: I was outside. 1 didn’t know anything. I
didn't know anything untU the two cops that came
down to where me and my cousin was came out
with their guns ready to take out, to do something
with. They grabbed my cousin, pulled him out of
the car . . .
^lestion: Tliey pbysicUy grabbed him?
Harold: Yeah. They grabbed him like this, and
pulled — right out of the car. And I was out there
washing it, and they just came up to him with their
hand right here {gesture of hand on pistol on hipl.
didn’t show any badge or anything, just had their
hand bn their gun. And then they told us to come
upstairs.
Kart Ahlers: We were all upstairs, and this
group of civilian-clothed people came in, storming
into the house and got everybody out of the house.
This is at 4'.30 in the afiernoon. They had every-
body, including a baby in arms, out on that porch.
And it was a real hot day. For over two hours,
they were not allowed to get water, use the toilet,
or anything else. They turned the house upside
dowm. And by the way. about the search warrant,
they took that with them. 1 do not have a copy of
it.
Tam Reeves: (...] As he {Harold} said, they
treated him like he was a criminal.
Harold: They sure did!
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O’CARROLL: A Book From The Process Of Struggle
JANUS; More Lies From The Victimization Crowd
Paedophilia: The Radical Case
by Tom O’CarroU
Peter Owen London UK 19#0
290 pages
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Reviewed by Michael Bronski
In the wake of a massive attack against
pedophilia from almost all media it is a relief to
come across a sane, inleiligem. and well written
book on the topic. While most of the “experts”
are usually “professionals” who make their
money either “curing” or persecuting pedophiles,
it is reassuring that there arc books being written
by boy/girt lovers that relate to their own experi-
ence.
Tom O'CarrolJ. who is now serving lime in
prison for his connections with PIE. has written
Paedophilia: The Radical Case. Written with ease
and charm Paedophilia is essentially a philoso-
phical look at the questions of child love in par-
ticular and the issues of children’s rights (and by
.exiension.-alLhiiman rights) in general^ B^ause it
i.s sen.sible, matter of fact, and honest it is impost
sible to recommend this book too highly; it is
probably the best book yet on the topic. Extrava-
gant praise notwithstanding there are assumptions
and deiaihs in Paedophilia that arc weaker than the
effect as a whole.
Paedophilia’s subtitle The Radical Case makes
sense in a social atmosphere in which the very no-
tion of no! condemning the topic is suspect. But
while most of O’Carrolt’s discourse is on the phil-
osophy of children’s rights and a critical reevalua-
tion of social relationships (not only adult/chiid
love, but also parent/child, and the structure of
the family) his analysis many times falls short of a
■‘radical" perspective: “sensible within a certain
culture bound framework” would be closer to the
truth.
O’Carroll seems to realize problems might arise
from his use of the word and early in the book (p.
10) explains himself; “Nor is my aim ’radical’ if
what is meant by that term is an attempt to ‘strike
at the very roots of society* by undermining ‘fami-
ly life’. I would be the first to acknowledge that
there is nothing warmer, more secure, or more
valuable to a child than a stable, loving family,
and I can see every reason for supporting the best
in family life, not destroying it.” He then goes on
to say that families that deny children the right to
sexuality are “profoundly limited, however good
they may be in other respects.” Throughout the
later parts of the book O’Carroll has good discus-
sions about the concepts of children’s rights and
how they might function within the family unit.
Bm as good as some of these discussions are —
and he gets most of them from other sources. Paul
Goodman. Richard Parson, Larry Constantine —
I feel that they are diluted by an adherance to a
concept of the family (as we know it now, without
many changes) and the very concept of par-
em/chi!d relationships. Although he generally has
a good understanding of the role that institu-
tionalized heierose.xuality plays in the culture —
he quotes several feminist sexual-political critiques
— I think that he grossly underestimates the ef-
fects and damages that heterosexuality and the
family have had on people’s lives.
I think that this is rooted in O’CarroU’s basic
assumptions of the boy/mar relationship. Rather
than viewing it as a “lover relationship” he
prefers a comparison with a pareni/child or teach-
er/pupit relationship. He argues that these models
are more appropriate because they are valid from
the child's point of view. But because he is a man.
who in this case is speaking for children, the argu-
ment rings somewhat false. He refers to J, Z. Eg-
ington’s Creek Love and his idealization of the
“mentor relationship” with the tacit understand-
ing that such a relationship is completely desir-
able. (There has been some criticism of the patri-
archal politics in the traditional greek man/boy-
teaefaer/roentor relationship, and 1 think that
these relationships Have~t^l>e“ld6kecl“at"‘rnore"
closely before they are continued to be used with
such unquestioned tenacity.) 1 suspect that O’Car-
roH’s hesitancy to criticize the family more harshly
is due to the fact that he enjoys and idealizes (he
parent/child relationship.
Some of the discussion of children’s rights are
quite good, but every now and then you get the
feeling that O’Carroll is much more a shy liberal
than a radical. “I must admit it: letting children
do what they want makes me nervous. I’m scared
of anarchy. 1 used to like a reasonably orderly
classroom, full of well-behaved children who pul
their hand up to ask questions one at a time, who
paid attention to what I told them and who didn’t
give too much trouble ... 1 don't boss children
around, but just in small things ^ like suggesting
that they put their loHypop wrappers in a waste
bin — i automatically find myself modelling their
behaviour.” Although he appreciates some
aspects of free-for-all-commune-living (which he
then associates with giving children LSD and let-
ting them play with loaded guns) he U clearly en-
trenched in a middle-class view of “niceness” and
this clearly affects his relationships with children.
Coming across tike a modern-day Mr. Chipps
(whose study was surely not littered with loUypop
wrappers) O’CarroU posits a view of the new liber-
ated child; nice, well behaved, obedient, yet sex-
ual.
I think that this desire to have “nice” children is
rooted in his basic view of children (especially
boys). “The men in boy-man relationships know
^ai most of the boys are not going to grow up to
be gay: they arc Ariel spirits, happy for the mo-
ment (o give and receive affection and sex play,
but soon they will fly away to girls and adult-
hood.” This rather teachy description comes
somewhere between puppy-dog tails and the Walt
Disney version of Peter Pan (the original J. M.
Barrie Peter was a selfish, snotty, urchin). As for
the percentage of boys involved in a boy/man
relationship becoming gay or straight, 1 don't
know of any studies that prove it either way. But
O'Carroll’s “hail to thee blithe spirit” approach
smacks of Victorian sentimentality that bears little
relation to the lives of children. If he prizes the
boys (and loves them) because he sees them as
these almost ethereal sprites — sort of young no-
ble savages — his understanding of them is as off
as that of adults who insist on de-sexualiztng
them.
Because his experience as a paedophile is almost
exclusively with boys — and his study attempts to
entail both the girl and boy lover — 1 found his
discussions of the former rather sketchy. He does
make some good points and takes into consid-
eration the differences in raising boys and girls in
our culture — but because his main interest is in
boys these discussions are much stronger. I think
that for a better understanding we are going to
~have^to-turn-to-a-girl-loverv.tDrefereablv_bQth a
male and a female) and listen to their experience.
This weakness in dealing with girl-love comes,
partly, from the fact that O’Carroll, for all of his
understanding about how fucked-up sexual roles
are, is still somewhat in sympathy with them: or at
least he is against tossing the whole mess out the
window . Feminist writers like Kate Millen and
Shulamith Firestone arc much stauncher in their
attacks on roles, and 1 think that they go farther in
those very places where O’Carroll falls short. The
questions of “children’s rights" is only a pan of
broader questions of “human rights." Disrupting
the traditional family only enough to include child
sexuality is not enough to make major cultural
changes. It is a beginning, and at this time for
most people an unthinkable one, but it is not
enough.
1 have dwell on some negative aspects of Paedo-
philia because there is so much good in it to
recommend that to enumerate would be a disser-
vice since it should be read in its entirety. It should
be kept in mind that while it is smart, intelligent,
sensitive, and informed — radical it's not.
Whatever the faults of Paedophilia Us impor-
tance is highlighted by comparison to other books
on the topic. One of the most odious has just been
published and lest there is any doubt as to its
political inclinations (or influence) it has been
chosen as a selection in the Conservative Book of
the Month Club.
The Death of Innocence: How Our Children are
Endangered by the New Sexual Freedom by Sam
Janus is a completely irresponsible collection of
misunderstandings, misreadings, and just plain
lies maquerading as scientific truth and sophi.sii-
cated psychological insight. Janus’s thesis is thai
our "permissive and sexually liberaied’ society
has forced sexuality upon children and that this
premature exposure has denied the children of
their “latency” period — a time that Janus insists
i,s vital to their growth and dcvelopmeni.
Aside from a gross misreading of the Freudian
notion of the “latency period,” Janus compares
his notion of the “latency period” to the “poig-
••
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The state should have nothing to do with sex-
uality. This is, more or less, the position of
NAMBLA.
Alas, the heterosexual tyranny, filled to the
brim with Jew-Christer taboos, is ever increasing
its power and prerogatives over private citizens*
sexual behavior. Recent attempts to change the
stale's relation to patrolling sexuality, as for ex-
ample the recent ones in Washington. D.C.. dem-
onstrate the task ahead. A bill to decriminalize sex
among children raised hackles from every Christer
spook -peddler in that tormented city. This item
was quickly deleted. The sponsor of the reform
package admitted that his proposals were meant to
streamline the rape Laws, not do away with them.
Heightened awareness, discussion and legal tam-
perings with sex laws only mean one thing; more
state scrutiny, more spying, more surveillance and
more arresu. More harpy screams of victimiza-
tion.
How can state intervention in sexuality be justi-
fied?
Well, one favorite lie from right-wingers is that
NAMBLA NEWS FAU. Ml
a strict tyranny of sexual repression is required to
keep the Amerikan family intact. If this kind of
sexual dictatorship is required to maintain the het
nuclear family, it would be best to let ii go the way
of all bad things. Happily, the het nuke family is
aheady in rapid decay.
The liberals can’t really swing with this right-
wing he. They need something more approfniately
pwudo-scientific and upscale to make legitimate
massive state apparatus for hunting out and crim-
inalizing sexual dissenters. Liberals, however, by
and large share the fundamental sexual assump-
tioBS Of the reactionaries. Liberals still defer to the
repressive imtioD that any sex outside of het coupl-
ing is. at least, naughty and titillating and, more
than likely, psycfaologicaUy dangerous anri harm-
ful to tht« who engage in it.
With this hind of nonsecsc enjoying its current
cachet, it’s dear that we need a revolution in our
sexual attitudes. And a revoluticm in attitudes is
not going to come about from the pro-status quo
liberals.
If the state’s advocates can sell this idea that all
proscribed sex involves “victimization,” it is no
surprise that simple-minded and greedy opportun-
ists would soon develop services to fill it»e de-
mand. These names are familiar to us now: Judi-
Ann Densen-Gcrbcr, Del. Lloyd Mai i-in. Nurse
Ann Burgess and Nick Croth. All are in the busi-
ness of criminalizing, processing and “treating”
those who don’t match the repressive sex norm.
Their life’s blood is furthering the fallacy of sex-
ual victimization. They all believe in expanding
the concept of “sexual victimization.” It’s a
booming racket, it prospers off the ruined lives of
gay men and boy-lovers. Their prosperity requires
our misery.
This crew has specifically largetted NAMBLA
for liquidation, as the recent raids (see front page)
demonstrate. They have spread the foulest kinds
of Hes about boy-lovers and NAMBLA. They libel
and smear deliberately, recklessly and with malice.
And they think their evil will go unchecked.
Well, if these creatures can dish it out, let's see
if their own seamy activities can bear a little sun-
light and scrutiny. •
^ THE VICTIMIZATION SCAM & ITS CLIP ARTISTS $
VICTIMIZATION RIP-OFF
ARTIST IS'I:
JUDI-ANN DENSEN-GERBER
From one perspective, it’s just a great pity that
so many European Jews who came to America
chose secular assimilation. Were Judi today the
wife of some dark -clad rabbi (as she is the
daughter of rabbis), hovering on the fringes of
Amerikan society, her ranting and posturing
would be of no consequence. Alas, things have
turned out otherwise.
Many twisted anti-gay crusaders have come and
gone this past decade. Somehow wicked-witch
Judi hangs on. I thought she would fade from the
scene as the result of I'lY Atty. Gen. Abrams’ in-
vestigation into the charges of rampant abuses at
Judi’s drug-rehab scam, Odyssey House. Little
- hj;.s-yet-been. issued from the A.G. Perhaps Judi
and her friends bought this one off. Anyone who
boasts of past close personal relationships with
Nelson and Happy Rockefeller, as Judi does, is
surely capable of committing the foulest deeds —
and then boasting of them in a glad-song press
release.
I always thought the strange timing of her hub-
by’s firing as NYC’s Medical Examiner at the
This is Judi-Ann OenservQeit>er. She’s
known as ’’Jingte-Bells” Judi because once
when a drug addict inmate passed over at her
Odyssey House scam, Judi summoned all
the other inmates to gather around the stiff
vtd she sang “Jingle Bells.’’ Sick Joke as
tribute.
same time as the Abrams probe was launched indi-
cated a connection. Perhaps the probe was begun
because someone learned that Judi was shipping
the drug addict corpses from Odyssey to hubb>
who wrote up false death certificates so Judi's
croak-quota wouldn’t get too high. Wouldn’t
warn to imerrupt the flow of those lovely federal
funds.
That the New York press (even the left-wing
Guardian!} still swallow Judi as a legit source pro-
ves their gullibility — and their complicity in the
ongoing witchhunt. Judi’s abuses have time and
again been publicly documented. Yet, like the pro-
verbial bad penny, she keeps turning up. And like
any other brazen loud Jewish kvetch, she won’t
close that motor-mouth Tilled with lies. Every time
that fat trap opens, she jeopardizes public safety,
“^it is my-fervent prayer;each.night_=r -to_which^
ever god will listen — that some day, the legions of
drug addicts she cages and spits on and humiliates
at the Odyssey House jail will rise up in a spon-
taneous fit of righteous fury and quickly put an
end to this blathering, dark, demented daughter of
dead Moses.
VICTIMIZATION RIP-OFF
ARTIST
DET. LLOYO MARTIN, L.A.P.D.
At one point, 1 wanted so much to be the per-
sonal nemesis of Martin. A militant faggot with
pen-in-hand bringing down a crooked, pro-fascist
Christer cop who hangs boys over cliffs and
threatens them with death unless they name boy-
lovers? What sweet justice it would be.
Alas, having seen Marlin close up (in duo with
his mousy-cracker wife Beth) and watched him do
his travelling kid-porn show, I’ve decided my
talents deserve better than this tacky, two-
dimensional target. Martin and his wife are
nothing more than outtakes from John Waters’s
Pofyesfer.
And sure enough, we find Martin’s fat hand in
the recent NAMBLA arrests. A bully like Lloyd
loves to beat up fags. Martin was right there in
Los Angeles where John Sherman was nabbed.
Martin is always phoning the FBI and postal in-
spectors to see which queers he can snare next. It’s
a busy life. Why haven’t the tax-payers of L.A.
made Martin account for his nation-wide crime
wave? Isn’t there enough trouble for him to make
in Los Angeles? Lloyd’s sort of like a smelly fart
in a crowded elevator; unfortunately everyone has
to gel a whiff before it disappears.
Lloyd's roots?
He grew up a little hillbilly in Arkansas. His
own kind didn't want him so he was farmed out to
This snap of Det. Lloyd Martin was taken on
the TV as Lloyd was a guest on the “The 700
Club” — a Bible-thumping hour. Lloyd was
there pushing his “victimization-kid-porn”
scam. Lloyd said on this show that pedo-
philes actually wait for babies to be bom so
that — Just minutes after birth — they can
grab the “post-fetuses” and "sexually victim-
ize” them. The Christer Host, duly scandal-
ized. asked viewers to cough up "Dollars for
Jesus.” Lloyd’s cut was not revealed.
some other yahoo clan. He grew up a boy unloved
— so he says. He surfaced as an adult in the
uniform of the parafascist LAPD. He has done
well there. I have no information as to the number
of citizens Martin has killed, crippled or wounded
in the “Line of Duty” (as they quaintly call it).
But since Lloyd is sexually-repressed to the Nth
degree, he had to target L.A. faggots and bo>-
lovers for his special harassment. As a reward to
his repression.
And he hung Patricia Prue’s sons over a cliff
and ordered them to cough up names.
To see Lloyd in action on the kid-porn talk cir-
cuit testifies to the reality of the price of sexual
repression. He embodies everything ugly, anti-life
and brutal in the Amerikan character. He plays at
being a big 6-foot-5 He-Man. Law Enforcer, Rea!
Guy, Christ-Loving Family Man. But screwed up
real tight somewhere in that walking stiff, there
must be something human, alive and semi-real
struggling to get out. It ain’t gonna make it. Too
late.
In his raps to audiences, Martin freely identifies
himself as “a pedophile.” Tm sure he is — an in-
operative one. He brags about how much he likes
to line up his hunky sons (the oldest is 19) and hug
and kiss them every night (in front of the wife and
the other boys).
My guess is that this lOO^o All-American Thug
will soon move (or be tossed) off the police beat
and wind up on the SIOOO a night Lecture Circuit
19
VICTIMIZATION RIP-OFF
ARTIST #3: NUTTY NURSE
OEAN ANN BURGESS
Nutty Nurse Ann Burgess, who runs the Boston
University Nursing School, is a brash new-comer
into the Victimizazion Circuit. Bui. Like a meteor
passing through the night sky, Burgess has Hashed
brightly for just a minute and has turned to cold
ash.
Burgess got 50Gs from the feds to help set up
centers to “rehabilitate victims of child por-
nography." When I spoke to her several months
back, she told me she didn’t have any victims yet
for her program but was still on the prowl. For her
next Fiscal year, she is asking the Reagan adminis-
tration for a half million. Dollars. Not victims.
Who is this crazed nurse? Well, she arrived at
B.U.’s Nurse School with the installation of one-
armed. authoritarian B.U. Prez John Silber. On
campus, she is known as a total creature loyal to
anti-gay Silber. Burgess actuaHy brags about how
closely she works with the FBI and law enforcers,
often inviting them onto campus.
I don’t know if Burgess is one of these anti-ga.v
lesbian types like Florence Rush. But when Tom
Reeves asked her if she was heterosexual, l a Bur-
gess look 6 long seconds (1 counted) to decide
what she was. Like Flo Rush, she’s one of these
establishment-oriented gay-haters, who wants to
get in on the ground floor of the attack on boy-
lovers. And these types will stoop to any cheap-
ness to put people in prisons.
VICTIMIZATION RIP-OFF
ARTIST
NICHOLAS GROTH Phl>
We’ll finish off with Nickte Groth, and none
too soon. Nick’s sort of a new-comer to this racket
too. Like his friend Nutty Nurse Burgess. They’ve
even co-authored some slimy little pro* victimiza-
tion propaganda book.
I find it difficult to write Groth *s name without
thinking of some grotesque malignant tumor.
Some.huge.goiter on a fat p«sqn’s neck. Perhaps
the image fits.
Nick Groth advertises himself as "Doc,” but
he’s only a,PhD,.noi_an MD. When you write him,
and he writes back, you see howTilliteraie this PhD
is. Can’t spell. Usu^ly 1 ignore such minor flaws,
but it’s hard not to notice when his very own sta-
tionery is emblazoned with “PhD” all over it.
(Rotarians. cops. Elks. etc.). He carries around a
suitcase full of rather dated kid and adult sex mags
to pass around among smut-hungry convention-
eers. He gives his rap about Roger, a 45-year-old
BL masochist who paid youths to shove things up
his ass. Roger died in 1979, perhaps in Martin’s
custody.
Freaks like Martin can be dangerous. On the
bright side. Martin is so obviously greedy, so
demonstrably stupid, aggressive and obsessed, it is
clear his fate will be something betwceu Willy
Loman and Jack Ruby. 1 see him at some “Sky-
bght Vista” room in a convention-sized Howard
Johnson. The dinner dishes have been cleared
away. The fat law enforcers unbutton their vests
and light up their smelly cigars and snigger as the
kid pom is passed around. Well worth the SlOO fee
to see this stuff! Lloyd is into his rap, showing a
picture of Roger’s asshole with a dildo up it. Then
. . suddenly . . . Martin turns blue . . . pitches
forward . . . and . . . well . . . the ambulance ar-
rives too late . . . the CPR didn’t work; he only
spit up and then choked on his vomit. RIP Det.
Lloyd Martin. There’s a sea of hot faggot gism in
that special comer of Christer Hell where crooked
cops who hang kids over cliffs go. And methinks
they’ve reserved you a special place. What a
waste! Looking at those big cracker lips, you
might have made .a hot cocfcsucker. Maybe next
life around, eh?
#
NAMBLA NEWS FALL 19S1
Nutty Nurse Burgess organized and played host-
ess to a “Victimizaikon” conference in Boston in
March. Members and supporters of NAMBLA
trashed this conference and left Nutty Nurse just a
bundle of nerves. When asked wh>‘ she helped
send BLs to prison. Burgess denied any role as
police agent. “Out job is to sensitize police about
the child molester once they have them in
custody.”
Burgess is a wizened little old woman. But with
a sharp eye for a scam. II you have her over to din-
ner, you might think about counting the spoons
after she leaves.
At her conference, Burgess showed some kid
pom slides that cops stole from George Jacobs.
Burgess smirked, giggled, and made ribald re-
marks about pubescent boys in red underpants.
The largest kid pom coHecrion in the U.S. is in the
possession of the Nutty Nurse. Such a mistake.
The Pope must be green with envy, if he’s still
alive.
As to helping in the victimization racket. Nurse
is doing real fine. There is a young man named
Jim who lives in Boston. Jim is now 16 and is gay-
identified. When Richard Peluso pleaded guilty to
sex acts with a minor, Jim was the boy named in
the indictments. Jim’s name was given by police to
the Nutty Nurse. She needs victims, right? Burgess
arrived unanounced at Jim’s family home. She
wanted to talk to Jim and his parents about his
“victimization.” Jim told me that when La Bur-
gess tried to barge in. Jim’s father slammed the
door in her face. Nurse, injured, turned to her
friends the cops. Jim was picked up by police and
taken against his wilt lo Nurtz's towering seraglio.
There he was held for 4 hours and questioned at !
length and in detail about hi.s sex history. Burgess
insisted he had been “scarred for life.” Jim was
bright enough to lie to the Nutty Nurse; she is so
stupid she’ll never know the difference. Jim got
home safely. But when Nurse Burgess yaks on
about how she’s an expert in victimology, darling,
she’s right on the mark. She practises the craft
herself. She'd probably hang kids oser cliffs, like
her friend Lloyd Marlin, if she could get aw ay
with it. The muscle is surely there — some of her
nurse hangers-on looked pretty butch to me
1 see that Nicholas Groth (see below) is having
another victimization confab at B.U. this fall.
Alas. Nutty Nurtz’s name is nowhere to be seen on
the program. Dropped like a hoi potato since she
botched the Iasi kid porn confab. The Fall Of The
House of Burgess. NAMBLA trashed ii and made
her and Lloyd look like fools. No wonder they
want to arrest us all. Well, murder will out and-'or
shit floats — whichever cliche fits.
Meanwhile she has all those butch nurses to
make it with. 1 recall that poor Ramon Navarro
died when the Ferguson brothers, pieces of trade
he picked up in Lloyd Martin’s territory, shosed
that iovely onyx dildo down his throat. Valentino
had given it to him. Perhaps, now that Nutty
Nurse is in repose. she can get one of her
girlfriends to shove a fancy dildo (given her by
Martin? stolen from Roger’s collection?) down
her throat and make a quick end to her exploit-
ative existence.
Lackies to fascists deserve no less.
Nickie runs the “Sexual Tieatmenl” center in
the Connecticut Penal system. 1 have no informa-
tion as to any connexion between the correctional
system in that state and organized crime, but
rumors persist. Rumors also swept NAMBLA last
spring that Nickie was a “shock doc” — that he
zapped imprisoned BLs with juice as part of
“therapy.” Who knows how Nickie heard the
rumor. But hear it he did. He ran out of the Nutty
Nurse confab to protest to the NAMBLA protest-
ors that he never had and never would use electro-
shock'on'sex* dissenters.- Groth, -however.-did-noL
volunteer what sadistic treatments he prefers to
electro-shocks (there are many) nor did he disclose
how it is he turns Connecticut queers into more
conforming citizens. -
Is Nickie from a foreign country?' He'sounded
like some mittle-european in a Drac film.
You should see Groth and co-author Burgess
together. What a lively pair! Sort of the George
Burns & Gracic Allen of the Victimization Circuit.
"Say goodnight. Nutty Nurse!” Nick wangled a
job out of the Conn. Correctional patronage-
merchants. We will not ask his political credentials
or whom he had to blow to get the job in that Maf-
nin state. Meet Nick and you’d think you had on
your hands some Roman Polanski reject from a
pre-Sharon-Tate-death thriller. I’ve met Nick.
Now 1 carry garlic around. Just in case.
1 don’t know any of Nick’s victims at the CT sex
treatment center. But I’m working on it. Each and
every one of these men will no doubt have fabu-
lous — and incredible — stories of how the en-
lightened state of Connecticut and PhD Nickie
Groth have treated them. I'm here to document
and publicize each and e very~a^use~anb 'transgTes^~
sion.
Nick Groth will certainly follow the pattern: so-
called career of “victimization” turned into ram-
pageous transgressor of individual rights and
stomper of prisoners’ rights once he gets them into_
his grip. Mad Doc Frankenstein. Changed his
name.
Someday, Groth may mate with the Nutty
Nurse or Old-Tesiameni Advocate Jingle Bells
Judi. Nine months later comes the birth of Omen:
Part IV.
There’s one strong unifying theme shared by the
careers of all these so-called victimization experts.
Each and every one of them has a captive and
totally subservient pogHilation they can abuse and
terrorize at will. Their victims have no redress.
Lloyd Marlin has all L.A. to bump off. The
L.A. cops rank with Houston’s and New Orleans’
as the most brutal. Martin surely does his bit.
Jingle BeDs Judi Densen-Gerber has a building
filled with strung-out black and Puerto Rican (and
a few whitey) drug addicts. She pushes them
around and bills herself as a messiah. Sort of like a
Jewish Jim Jones. Judi-Town here they come!
B.U.’s Nutty Nurse has a whole school to ter-
rorize. She stalks the streets for boy children to
whisk into her dykey den to brain-wash with her
victimization mumbo-jumbo. A Broderick Craw-
ford in drag, she can give a kid the third degree to
beat the band. Hell of a price just for some blow-
job. Ghouls like Burgess certainly can take the fu’n
out of sex. This is their mission.
PhD Nickie Groth has a whole prison popula-
tion to experiment on and exploit. Dr. Mengle
could still be on the loose, claiming now that he’s
solving the problem of victimization. And Jingle
Bells Judi would be the first to sign up. How times
have changed! But frauds smell other frauds a
mile away, no matter the tenor of the regime. For
these snake-oil peddlers, faggots and BLs are Just
slabs on the decks, boys to get shocked, geeks to
get grilled, song-birds to be made to sing.
What Judi, Lloyd, Nurtz and Nickie have yet to
fully appreciate — so stupid they have never read
anything about Paris 1789-1793 — is that when
the time comes and when the power shifts occur,
they’ll be out on their asses and hiding out from
those who will seek them out to make all of them
pay for each and every crime. I can hear the
squeaky tumbril now, on its path to its destination
— a fate these ancien regimers so richly deserve.
All in the name of pseudo-science. Theirs. • ,
by MITZEL
Memorandum
DIRECTOR, FBI (145-5920) Date 9/22/81
r(.At tent ion: FBI Laboratory, Document Section)
3AC, INDIANAPOLIS (145B-778) (P)
Subject
N0RIH-.AMERICAN.MAN/-BQY-»L0VE.. ASSOCIATION
^(NAMBLA^.. ■
^ST OFFICE BOX„174
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Enclosed for the FBI Laboratory is an original copy
of NAMBLA Bulletin, Volume Two, Number Six, July-August,
1981, issue received with an invitation to the NAMBLA
Conference dated 9/9/81, which was directed to|
received at Indianapolis 9/14/81. A copy of the item
being furnished to New York and Brooklyn-Queens , as there
are pending investigations at New York., New York, and/
Brooklyn-Queens. W
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INDIANAPOLIS
At Indianapolis, Indiana
Provide, until further notice, copies of correspondence
received from NAMBLA to FBIHQ and interested Divisions.
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FBI FILE NO. 145-5920
NORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY
LOVE ASSOCIATION (NAMBLA)
Re: POST OFFICE BOX 174
MIDTOWN STATION
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10018
ITOM-CHILD EXPLOITATION
00; New York
Examination requested by; Indianapolis
Reference: Letter dated
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LAB. NO. 10925055 D SK
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Original of NAI4BLA BULLETIN, Volume 2, Number 6 for
July*- August 19 81, NAMBLA, P.O. BOX 174, Midtown Station,
New York, NY 10018
Invitation to NAMBLA Conference to be held in
Baltimore, Maryland, on October 10 and 11, 1981
Registration form for the NAMBLA Conference to be
hold in Baltimore, Maryland, on October 10 and 11, 1981
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
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THROUGH CONVERSATION BETWEEN UNDERCOVER AGENTS IN WFO UCO
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MEMBER, HIS INTEREST IN THE ORGANIZATION IS QUITE OBVIOUS.
HAS MADE SEVERAL DISCRETE INQUIRIES CONCERNING
THE UPCOMING NAMBLA CONVENTION BEING HELD IN BALTIMORE,
MARYLAND, ON OCTOBER 13, 1931, AND OCTOBER 11, 1981. SOURCE
HAS LOCATED AT LEAST ONE INDIVIDUAL WHO MAY ATTEND AND
INVITE SOURCE AS HIS GUEST.
INFORMATION OBTAINED THROUGH OPERATION! |haS
INDICATED THAT MANY KNOWN PEDERASTS ARE ACTIVEE NAMBLA
MEMBERS.
AND
, BOTH MENTIONED IN
REFERENCED BQMRA TELETYPE TO DIRECTOR, ARE
SUBJECTS AND ACTIVE PEDERASTS.
WFO BELIEVES THAT A PHOTOGRAPHIC SURVEILLANCE OF THIS
MEETING WOULD PROVE BENEFICIAL TO THE CAPTIONED CASE AS
WELL AS TO THE
OPERATION.
TO ATTEND THE
UACB , WFO WILL INSTRUCT
CONFERENCE ON OCTOBER 13, 1981, AND OCTOBER 11, 1981.
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NAMBLA WILL 3E HOLDING THEIR FIFTH GENERAL MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCE ,
^ IN BALTIMORE ON THE WEEKEND OF OCTOBER 10 AND^lvW Ip^^LH^
CONFERENCE WILL BE AT THE GAY COMMUNITY cmT^^ m 4SE
rjSTREET, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND. ACCORDING TO A BULLETIN ISSUED BY^ ^
I', NAMBLA, DATED SEPTEMBER 9, 1931, THE CONFERENCE IS.nOT OPEN TO
^HE PUBLIC, WITji- attendance RESTRICTED TO NAMBLA MEMBERS, INVITED
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OBSERVEHS, AND THE GAY PRESS. A 5:00 PM PRESS CONFERENCE ON
OCTOBER 10, 1981, IS OPEN TO THE STRAIGHT PRESS AND THE 7:50 PM
MEETING Off OCTOBER 10, l98l, IS OPEN TO ALL. A COPY OF THE
conference INVITATION WILL BE FORWARDED TO BALTIMORE UNDER
SEPARATE COVER. ' ,
LEADS
BALTIMORE AT BALTIMORE, MARYLAND. WILL ATTEMPT TO PROVIDE
photographic surveillance COVERAGE OF THE MAMBLA GENERAL MEMBERSHIP
conference to be held OCTOBER 10 AND 11, l93l, aT THE GAY
community center, 241 WEST CHASE STREET, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.
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SAC, WA^INGTON FIELD (145B-786) ROUTINE
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; POST OFFICE
^OX 174, MIDTOWN STATION, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10018; ITOM-SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN; 00:EQ.
REBQTEL TO BUREAU, OCTOBER 2, 1981, TELEPHONE CALL FROM
SA| I, BALTIMORE, TO SA|
OCTOBER 5, 1981, AND TELEPHONE CALL OF SA|
I. WFO, ON OCTOBER 5, 1981.
BQ, ON
1, TO SA|
REFERENCED COMMUNICATION SET FORTH INFORMATION REGARDING
THE FORTHCOMING NAMBLA GENERAL MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCE TO BE HELD
IN BALTIMORE, MARYLAND ON OCTOBER 10-11, 1981. BQMRA HAS REQUESTED
THAT BALTIMORE PROVIDE PHOTOGRAPHIC SURVEILLANCE COVERAGE OF THIS ^
MEETING TO BE HELD AT THE GAY COMMUNITY CENTER, 241 WEST CHASE
OCT' 9 i3S1 .
PAGE TWO
UNCLAS
STREET, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND. PHOTOGRAPHIC COVERAGE WOULD AID
IN THE CONTINUING EFFORTS TO IDENTIFY NAMBLA MEMBERS.
BQMRA INVESTIGATIONS HAVE REVEALED THAT CERTAIN NAMBLA
MEMBERS ARE ENGAGING IN ACTIVITIES THAT ARE VIOLATIONS OF TITLE 18,
use, SECTION 2251, 2252, AND 2423-SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN.
EXAMPLES WOULD INCLUDE
RECENTLY
/ ■ .
ARRESTED IN NASSAU COUNTY, NEW YORK/BQMRA INV/iSTIGATIO N (BQ FILE
], BU FILE
INTO THE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION
ACTIVITIES OF MALE YOUTHS BEING CONDUCTED AT I
RESIDENCE. INVESTIGATION AL^^REVEALED THAT|
COMMUNICATION WITH THE FOLLOWING KNOWN.'(NAMfei:A MEMBERS:
WAS IN
1, AND
NAMBLA MEMBERS
HAVE ALSO APPEARED AT
THE NASSAU COUNTY COURTHOUSE REGARDING
PROCEEDINGS
BEING HELD THERE. ALSO NAMBLA MEMBER
HAS RECENTLY BEEN
IMPLICATED IN THE BALTIMORE CASE
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L AS
WITNESSED
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OBTAINING
OF A FRAUDULENT PASSPORT.
WAS ARRESTED AT MIAMI, FLORIDA,
ON SEPTEMBER 17, 1981, AFTER DISCOVERY OF HIS FRAUDULENT PASSPORT.
MANY OF THE ABOVE LISTED INDIVIDUALS ARE KNOWN HOMOSEXUALS
ENGAGING IN PEDERAST ACTIVITIES. ON JULY 29, 1981, FORMER NAMBLA
MEMBER] ], AGEQ, DATE OF BIRTH] j, WAS
INTERVIEWED BY SPECIAL AGENTS OF THE NEW ROCHELLE MRA AT WHICH
TIME] ]aDVISED that HE HAD TRAVELLED WITH SEVERAL NAMBLA
INDICATED THAT HE TRAVELLED FROM NEW YORK TO /
TO visit! I also
MEMBERS.
BALTIMORE WITH
TOOK
FROM NEW YORK TO BOSTON TWO TIMES TO VISIT NAMBL'A
MEMBERS
REPORTED THAT
MEETING
, AND
J-
ALSO
TOOK HIM TO BALTIMORE AGAIN, THIS TIM;E
I ■
OF THE GAY COMMUNITY CENTER, AND (LNU)
I, WFO SUBJECT
IS BELIEVED TO BE
INVOLVED IN THE SOLICITATION OF CHILDREN FOR PROSTITUTION AND
PORNOGRAPHIC FILMS (] ]) . ON
ANOTHER OCCASION
AND NAMBLA MEMBER
TOOK
FROM NEW YORK TO BOSTON TO ATTEND A PARTY FOR
WAS HELD AT THE HOME OF
, WHICH
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BY NEW ROCHELLE SAS HE ELUDED TO THE SEXUAL ACTIVITIES THAT
TRANSPIRED DURING THESE TRIPS. BQMRA PRESENTLY ATTEMPTING TO
LOCATE I I FOR ADDITIONAL INTERVIEWS TO CLARIFY THE SEXUAL
ACTIVITY DURING THESE TRIPS AND OTHER NAMBLA RELATED EVENTS. THE
RECENT PUBLICATION OF THE NAMBLA BULLETIN CONTAINS AN ARTICLE
REGARDING r lINTERVIEW WITH THE FBI AND THE FACT THAT HE
HAS BEEN DROPPED FROM THE NAMBLA MEMBERSHIP ROLLS BECAUSE OF THIS
INTERVIEW.
IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE INVESTIGATIONS THAT HAVE RESULTED IN
IDENTIFYING PEDERAST ACTIVITY BY NAMBLA MEMBERS, NAMBLA’S
PHILOSOPHY, AS EXPRESSED IN ITS PUBLICATIONS, REVEAL THEIR
ATTITUDE TOWARD PRESENT STATE AND FEDERAL LAWS RELATING TO
SEXUAL ACTIVITY WITH CHILDREN. FROM A NAMBLA BULLETIN WAS THE
FOLLOWING: "NAMBLA IS AN ORGANIZATION FOUNDED IN RESPONSE TO THE
EXTREME OPPRESSION OF MEN AND BOYS INVOLVED IN CONSENSUAL SEXUAL
AND OTHER RELATIONSHIPS WITH EACH OTHER. ITS MEMBERSHIP IS OPEN
TO ALL INDIVIDUALS SYMPATHETIC TO MAN/BOY LOVE IN PARTICULAR AND
SEXUAL FREEDOM IN GENERAL. NAMBLA IS STRONGLY OPPOSED TO AGE OF
CONSENT LAWS AND OTHER RESTRICTIONS WHICH DENY ADULTS AND YOUTH
THE FULL ENJOYMENT OF THEIR BODIES AND CONTROL OVER THEIR LIVES.
PAGE FIVE
UNCLAS
NAMBLA'S GOAL IS TO END THE LONG-STANDING OPPRESSION OF MEN AND
BOYS INVOLVED IN ANY MUTUALLY CONSENSUAL RELATIONSHIP BY:
1. BUILDING A SUPPORT NETWORK FOR SUCH MEN AND BOYS.
2. EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ON THE BENEVOLENT NATURE OF MAN/BOY
LOVE.
3. COOPERATING WITH THE LESBIAN, GAY, AND OTHER MOVEMENTS
FOR SEXUAL LIBERATION.
4. SUPPORTING THE LIBERATION OF PERSONS OF ALL AGES FROM
SEXUAL PREJUDICE AND OPPRESSION.
THE NAMBLA BULLETIN CONTINUES:
"WE BELIEVE SEX IS GOOD AND WHOLESOME. WE SUPPORT THE RIGHT
OF YOUNG PEOPLE, AS WELL AS ADULTS, TO CHOOSE FREELY THE PARTNER
WITH WHOM THEY WISH TO SHARE AND ENJOY THEIR BODIES. WE ENCOURAGE
AND SUPPORT YOUNG PEOPLE IN THEIR REBELLIONS AGAINST THE ANTISEXUAL
RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED UPON THEM BY ADULTS - PARENTS, POLICE, MORAL
CRUSADERS, THE CHURCH, THE LAW, AND THE STATE. WE OPPOSE AGE-OF-
CONSENT LAWS AND OTHER LEGISLATION AGAINST THE FREEDOM OF YOUTHS.”
THE ABOVE INFORMATION OBTAINED IN BQMRA INVESTIGATION
PREDICATES THE REQUEST FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC SURVEILLANCE COVERAGE OF
THE UPCOMING NAMBLA MEMBERSHIP MEETING IN BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.
PAGE SIX
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SAC, BQMRA HAS AUTHORIZED SA
TRAVEL TO BALTIMORE IN ORDER TO ASSIST WITH THE SURVEILLANCE
OPERATION, AS REQUESTED BY BALTIMORE.
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DURING CONVENTION. BALTIMORE IS CONCERNED THAT WITH PRESS
CONFERENCE SCHEDULED, DISCUSSIONS SCHEDULED REGARDING F
ARREST, AND FACT THAT GAY COMMUNITY CENTER OF BALTIMORE LTD IS
LOCATED IN CENTER OF A GAY NEIGHBORHOOD, SHOULD PHYSICAL
SURVEILLANCE BE DETECTED BY NAMBLA MEMBERS, BUREAU COULD BE
n
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ACCUSED OF UTILIZING PHYSICAL SURVEILLANCE TECHNIQUES ON
"HOMOSEXUAL COMMUNITY,"
BROOKLYN-0UEENS AND WASHINGTON FIELD ARE REQUESTED TO
EXPEDITIOUSLY SUPPLY BALTIMORE VIA TELETYPE INFORMATION WHICH
WOULD PREDICATE PHYSICAL SURVEILLANCE AND INFORMANT COVERAGE OF
NAMBLA CONFERENCE.
WASHINGTON FIELD SHOULD ADVISE BALTIMORE IFf IWILL
ATTEND CONFERENCE.
UACB, BALTIMORE WILL CONDUCT PHYSICAL SURVEILLANCE OF NAMBLA
CONFERENCE, ATTEMPT TO HAVEI
ATTEND CONFERENCE, AND
SA
If BROOKLYN- QUEENS, WILL TRAVEL TO BALTIMORE
AND ASSIST BALTIMORE SAS IN IDENTIFYING NAMBLA MEMBERS. SACS
BALTIMORE AND BROOKLYN- QUEENS CONCUR WITH TRAVEL OF SA| —
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PD-523 (Rev. 5-4-79)
From: ^ Director, FBI
Att: Photographic Operations Unit, Rm. 1B903
To: . wm, cs#sMfl
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Subject: mma.. mmM&m mmfwm msmim
1. ENCLOSED PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK RELATES TO:
I I Current Investigation Mug Shot Program Other
FBIHQUSEONUY Z
Received
Developed
Printed
Enlargements
Slides
Copied
Other
Initials
Date
2. ENCLOSURE(S)
Film To Be Processed
Size
Color
B&W
4X5
136
126
120
Slides
Movie Film or Microlilm
Size
Color
B&W
Quantity
16mm
35mra
8( super)
70 mm
AHU
Negatives To Be Printed
Size I Color B&W [Quantity
Item
Quantity
3. WORK REQUESTED
Processing
g Process only
Process & make print
1 ~ } Process & make contact print
[ 1 Slides to be processed
i 1 Slides to be duplicated
□ ^
□
Prints To Be Mode
(From 135, 126, 110)
Q3V4X5 Bhs X7
# prints from each frame
(‘^i Color ( B&W
( From 120 and 4X5)
□ 4X5 I I8X 10
# prints from each frame
\ — 1 Color □ B&W
Prints To Be Made Custom Prints
[ I Cibachrome (From any size negative or slide)
(Prints from slides)
I — I ou, V K Quantity
□ 354X5
□ 5X7
1 18 X 10
Size
□ Color □ B&W
4- PROCESSING CENTER
REMARKS rr
SPEd^^NSTRUCTIONS
[^j MairRoom: Show shipment date and registry number,
{ I Shipping Show shipment date; bill of lading
1 i
number; initial invoye^ui^^ce to be placed in
administrative
MOT RECOt^DEii^
1 OCT 22 1981
noanoso
m.
Director, FBI
(Attg Photographic Operations Unit, Rm. 1B903
FD-583 (Rev. 10-18-78)
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To: *^^Director, FBI
^ / (At^ Photographic Operations Unit, Rm. 1B903
avA/ 'H0 / yv
fW ^ 'BMKM-QoeEtis (Hs:e-3W) (p)
Subject: KWm Ahc<iicai4 MaiJ^Qo/ uVc
ftPy Pf . tA«PTt)ti)|J XTaTIoiJ
wev) yo«y , ioVy.
fTOM-S^ OF
(00 'B®)
1. ENCLOSED PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK RELATES TO;
Current Investigation Mug Shot Program QH Other
2. ENCLOSURE(S)
Film To Be Processed
Size Color B&W Quantity
4X5
^35 3ro*<
126
AIRTEL
' >
te (o|i3|^r
Movie Film or Microfilm
Size
Color
B&W
Quantity
16mm
35mm
8(super)
70 mm
AHU
Il^raWTIONSji^ ^VE^SE
FBIHQUSE ONLY
Received
Developed
Printed
Enlargements
Slides
Copied
Other
□ V.P.S. □KII □K 400 □
Initials^
/cV/O'/
i
Negatives To Be Printed
Size f Color 1 B&W Quantity
Item
Quantity
3. WORK REQUESTED
Processing
Process only
Process & make print
Process & make contact print
Slides to be processed
Slides to be duplicated
aOjM I ,
Prints To Be Mode
(From 135, 126, and 110)
□ 3V4 X 5 15^5 X 7
# prints from each frame
5^ Color □ B&W
( From 1 20 and 4X5)
□ 4X5 □8X10
# prints from each frame
1 — 1 Color □ B&W
Prints To Be Mode
I I Cibachrome
(Prints from slides)
{ I 31^ X 5
□ 5X7
□ 8 X 10
^ Custom Prints
(From any size negative
or slide)
4. REMARKS
(include trial date or other ) A
mandatory deadline and any / ^
other specific instructions)
lty<L- yLtJ^O-inejsi J^l[
I ^
RECORDS
S OCT^^I
... V,
Quantity
Size . ..
□ Color □ B&W
■fi
2 - FBIHQ Enclosure: 13 /
l-'EQ l4Sa^2l23
298
INSTRUCTIONS
GENERAL
ALL photographic work must be submitted under the substansive case caption when it relates ^o an investigative matter.
Include FBIHQ file number when available. All other photographic processing forms (including FD-482) are obsolete and should
not be used. The FD.523 is to be utilized for all photographic processing work forwarded to FBIHQ except employee identification
and/or credential cards. Requests for official FBI identification and credential cards must be submitted on form FD-464, Attention:
Property Procurement and Management Section,
The FD-523 may be filled out in legible hand printing. The following information is set forth to ^^ist iniiwoperly filling
-
All photographic work. submitted should be checked as Current Investigation, Mug Shot Program, or
out this form.
1, ENCLOSED PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK RELATES TO:
block. If “OTHER” is checked a short description of what it is should be stated under item #4 (Remarks).
2. ENCLOSURE(S):
<a
Film To Be Processed - Check appropriate column for Color, Black and White film, alongside the size ^|fthe fife. Also,
indicate the number of sheets or rolls or cassetts in the quantity column. Slides refers to EXTACHROME ONLK^o iIBt send
KODACHROME.
Movie Film Or Microfilm - Check appropriate block for size and quantity. DO NOT SEND COLOR MOVIE FILM.
Negatives To Be Printed - Check appropriate block for size; Color or Black and White and quantity submitted. If 135mm
negatives are to be printed, indicate by frame number, do not cut up into individuals frames. The same applies to any roll film.
Other - Enclosures to be copied e.g. photographs, documents, objects, etc.
3, WORK REQUESTED:
Processing - Only means to develop the film and NO COPIES or PRINTS e.g. microfilm.
Process And Print - Means to develop film and make one or more prints.
Process And Make Cento ct Strip - Means to develop film and make prints same size as negatives.
Slides To Be Processed - Means Ektachrome film to be developed and slides mounted.
Slides To Be Duplicated - Means process slide film and make one or more duplicates of each slide.
Prints To Be Made - From 135, 126 and 110 film, check size SVz X 5 or 5 X 7. These are the only size prints available from
our machine printers. Check Color or Black and White. , ^
From 120 and 4X5 Film - Check size 4 X 5 or 8 X 10 and indicate Color or Black and White. These are the only size prints
available from our machine printers,
Ctbachrome Prints - Prints made directly from slides. Machine prints can be made in sizes 3Vi X 5, 5 X 7 and 8 X 10.
Custom Prints - From any size negative or slide; indicate quantity and size of prints either Color or Black and White.
Custom prints are available in various sizes but require extensive special handling. This type of printing is done on special
request and proper justification must be furnished under item #4 (Remarks).
4. REMARKS:
Justification for custom prints. Any special instruction or short description of “other” photographic work in item #1 of this
form.
0-93 (Rev.„4-26-78)
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1D/53/B1
OgPAQTMIlNT OF JUSTICE 1
I FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIOnI
. COfAftilUNICATION MESSAGE FORM
CLASSIFICATION
UNCLAS E F T 0
PRECEDENCE
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TO FBI BALTIMORE -CmSB-llBEI ROUTINE
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FBI WASHINGTON FIELD OFFICE -CmSB-Tfib} ROUTINE
UNCLAS E F T 0
)mO^H AMERICAN MAN/BOY LOVERS ASSOCIATION CNAMBLAI^ POST OFFICE
BOX 174-, MIDTObJN STATION-. NEW YORK-. NEW YORK IDDlfli ITOM-
SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN^ 00: BROOKLYN-flUEENS
RE BROOKLYN-dJUEENS TEL TO THE BUREA AN
AND 10/7/fll’-,
JJASHINGTON FIELD OFFICE’S TEL TO THE BUREAU DATED ID/fl/ai.
RETELS ADVISE THAT THE FIFTH GENERAL MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCE
_0F NAMBLA WILL BE HELD IN BALTIMORE-. MARYLAND DURING THE WEEK-
END OF OCTOBER 10 AND 11-. naii THAT THE BALTIMORE DIVISION W^ITl
_CONDUCT SURVEILLANCE COVERAGE OF THESE MEETINGS^ AND-, THAT
WASHINGTON FIELD OFFICE INFORMANT WILL BE ASKED TO ATTEND THE—
MEETINGS.
APPROVED BV
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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
COMMUNICATIONS CENTER
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S OCT 2? 198J
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RECEIVING OFFICES ARE REQUESTED TO PROVIDE FBIH(3 lilITH THE
20
18
16
14
12
1*0
RESULTS OF THEIR INVESTIGATION REGARDING THE CONFERENCE OF
NAHBLA IN BALTinORE-i INCLUDING DETAILS OF THE CONFERENCE-. ALL
1_KN0UN ATTENDEES AND SPEAKERS AND COPIES OF ANY SURVEILLANCE
PHOTOGRAPHS.
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TO DIRECTOR, Fb/ ( 145B-5920) ROUTINE
FBI BALTIMORE /[45B-1122) ROUTINE
FBI BROOKLYN-iuEENS (145B-3923) ROUTINE
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JORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY LOVERS ASSOCIATION (NAMBLA)| POST
OFFICE BOX 174, MIDTOWN STATION, MEW YORK, NEW YORK, 1001Sj
'trOM-SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN;. OOsBQMRA
RE .BUREAU TELETYPE TO BALTIMORE, OCTOBER 23,^f^stf
AS ’STATED IN REFERENCED TELETYPE, I
TO ATTE® NAf'iBLA CONVENTION, HOWEVER WAS UNABLE TO SECURE Ai
invitation from an ACTIVE MEMBER. SINCE ATTENDANCE WAS BY
INVITATION ONLY, SOURCE WAS UNABLE TO ATTEND.
WAS ASKED /
. / / /
Director, FBI 145-592Q Date
Attention : FBI Lab, Document Section
SAC, Indianapolis 145B-778
10/28/81
Subject :
ffORTH AMERICAIi. MAN/BOY LOVE AS^SiXUATON .
(NAMBLA)
PO BOX 174
MIDTOWN STATION
NEW YORK, NEW iQBK-^lOm^^.
ITOM - CHILD^XPLOrririON
00: NY
ai05(;54
Enclosed for the FBI Lab is the original copy of
NAMBLA Bulletin Vol. 2, #7, 9/81, which was directed
to I ~\, received at Indianapolis, 10/21/81.
A copy of the enclosure is being furnished NY and
as there are pending investigations at both locati^
Lead: Indianapolis - At Indianapolis
Provide, until further notice, copies of correspa
received from NAMBLA to FBIHQ and interested divisi
0-
2 -
2 -
1 -
/
Bureau (enc.)
Brooklyn-Queens 31B-11620
New York 145B-3923 (enc.)
Indianapolis
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FBI/ OOJ
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RECORDED
11/10/81
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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Laboratory Work Sheet
11/5/81
SAC, Indianapolis (145B-778)
NORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY
LOVE ASSOCIATION (NAMBLA)
PO BOX 174
MIDTOWN STATION
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10018:
ITOM - CHILD EXPLOITATION
00: New York
Examination requested by; Indianapolis
FBI FE.E NO. 145-5920
LAB. NO. 11105054 D SK
YOUR NO.
Examination by: .
/l//9A)OL/h
Reference:
Letter dated October 28, 1981
Examination requested: DOCU-Itient
Specimens received:
November 5, 1981
Item 66
Copy of NAMBLA Bulletin, Volume 2, Number 7,
September 1981, NAMBLA, P.O. Box 174, Midtown
Station, New York, N.Y. 10018
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TRANSMIT VIA:
I I Teletype
I I Facsimile
PRECEDENCE:
I I Immediate
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CLASSIFICATION:
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DIRECTOR, FBI (145B-5920)
(ATTN: SUPERVISOR! ~l
ORGANIZED CRIME SECTION, DIVISION 6)
SAC, BALTIMORE (145B-1122)
FROM:
SUBJECT; ^ORTH^-AMERIC^ MAN/BQY
LOVE ASSOCIATION (NAMBLA) , I f"
PT~ O , ~ b5ST"I 74-r-“ ^ I ^
MIDTOira STATION, 1 VV|>
NEW.'. YORKv,I-:*NEk XQEIK^_ 10018; N®
ITOM - SEXUAL EXPLOITATION /F
OF CHILDREN // *
(00: Brooklyn-Queens) 1/
Re BQMRA airtel to Bureau, 9/23/81;
BQHRA teletype to Bureau, 10/2/81;
Baltimore teletype to Bureau, 10/7/^j ^ ^
BQMRA teletype, / j , //
WFO teletype, 10/8/8 //
BQMRA airtel, 10/8/81 '
Bureau teletype, 10/23/8:U^*^*r^
WFO teletype, 10/26/8r, all captioned as above.
Enclosed for the Bureau is one copy of Conference
Invitation, dated 9/9/81, for the North American Man/Boy
Love Association, 5th General Membership Conference, held
the weekend of 10/10-11/81, with attached registration form.
Enclosed for BQMRA is an original and one copy of 13
investigative inserts which reflect investigation conducted
at Baltimore, Maryland, concerning I
Bureau (Enc. ' H
- Brooklyn-Queens] (Enc. 30) (145B-3923)
(Attn; SA| I)
2 - WFO (145B-786) (Attn: SA«[ p
1 - Baltimore
^ ’^■0V 24 1301
BA 145B-1122
I Gay Community Center, 241 West Chase
Street, Baltimore, Maryland,! I
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_|I Also enclosed for
BQMRA is an original and one copy each of two physical
surveillance logs concerning surveillance conducted at NAMBLA
convention, 241 West Chase Street, Baltimore, Maryland,
10/10 and 11/81.
Referenced BQMRA airtel dated 9/23/81 set forth
information that I ^ I, age | |, date of birth I
had revealed his association with several NAMBLA members ,
primarily I I, during
Bureau interview. L
J advised Bureau agents that he had
taken several weekend trips to various cities including
Baltimore, Boston and Washington, D. C . , and that during the
summer of 1981,r I travelled with] | to Baltimore on
two separate occasions , once meeting \ land the other
trip meeting I land (FNuTI f(phonetic) .
BQMRA further advised that I I is an active NAMBLA
Steering Committee member having kheld the position of
I was reported to be the
I of Baltimore Gay Community Service Center.
also advised that he staved with I I for five weeks
a location on I
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noted that
white ma
[tale.
(FNU)
date of
who
is thes®3ect of
I may be identical
wO case captioned
Investigation conducted at Baltimore disclosed that
Gay Community Center of Baltimore is located at 241 West
Chase Street, Baltimore, Maryland. Also located at this
address is Baltimore * s-Gay Alliance and the Gay Switchboard.
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L wno lists hi
residence
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180 pounds . daik aji pil'tfil
jf—
male
10_". 141} pounds,.
resides "at
A review of
the records of the Maryland State Police, Baltimore City Police
and Baltimore County Police all fail to disclose any arrest
record f qj. | | or | |.
Review of Baltimore indices failed to disclose
any information regarding I H other than those references
in case entitled, *1 I. OO; WFO." 0?wo references
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appear in Baltimore file entitled.
(ba[
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concernxng
1, RICO, 00; BA,"
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however, these refei^ences were insignificant to captioned
matter ♦ A review of Baltimore file 100-28602 disclosed that
I name appeared on a membership list of
Baltimore Committee for the Defense of the Harrisburg Six
^residence was shown as
the
during May, 1971
His employment was shown as
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A review of the 1981 Alexandria Drafting Company's
Baltimore and Baltimore County Street Guide failed to disclose
a street named I I in I I,
however , I |, is
located within | |, a community within
the Baltimore City limits.
any pertinent information.
A review of persons residing at
L failed to disclose
f
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A review of the November, 1980 Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone Directory for Greater Baltimore disclosed an[
atl ■
]
revealed that
date of birth
]. Further investigation
I, white female. 5*3", 100 pounds,
I, resides atl I,
J7^ A
review of the records of the Maryland
State Police, Baltimore City Police, and Baltimore County
Police failed to disclose any information identifiable with
or I I. Baltimore indices negative
regarding |_
and
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Referenced BQMRA teletype dated 10/2/81 disclosed
NAMBLA was scheduling to hold their 5th General Membership
Conference at the Gay Community Center, 241 West Chase Street,
Baltimore, Maryland, the weekend of 10/10-11/81. Enclosed
conference invitation and registration form sets forth agenda
for this meeting. This agenda was received by Baltimore Division
via referenced BQMRA airtel, dated 10/8/81.
Referenced Bureau teletype dated 10/23/81 requested
details of persons known to attend conference and copies of
surveillance photographs. Physical surveillance coverage
conducted at 241 West Chase Street, Baltimore, Maryland , on
10/10/81 by SAs of Baltimore Division, assisted by SA| |
I 1, BQMRA, from 9:55 a.m. , to 1:21 p.m. Surveillance
disclosed individuals entering 241 West Chase Street,
Baltimore, Maryland, the site of the 5th General Membership
Conference of NAMBLA, were associated with vehicles which bore
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Rosann's Apparel, Inc.
26 North Main Street
Rochester , New Hampshire
For the information of the Bureau, surveillance
photographs taken by SA| L BQMRA, with
photographs subsequently processed at BQMRA.
Referenced WFO teletype dated 10/26/81 advised that
WFO source was unable to secure an invitation to NAMBLA
conference .
Leads to other offices regarding participants
attending this conference are being left to the discretion
of the office of origin.
LEAD; .
BQMRA
AT BROOKLYN-QUEENS , NEW YORK
Will provide FBIHQ with one cppy of surveill^
taken 10/10 and 11/81 at Baltimore, Maryland
of surveillance photographs
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WORTH # I
AMERICAN ^ ^
MAN/BOY LOVE ASSOCIATION
PO. Box 174 Midtown Station. New York. 10018
September 9, 1981
CONFERENCE INVITATION
The fifth general membership conference of the North American Man Boy
Love Association will be held in Baltimore on the weekend of October 10 and
11. 1981.
In its first three years NAMBLA has successfully developed into a network
of mutual support and defense. We foughtf
I Sexually Dangerous
Person designation and won the first step toward his release. We helped win
the early release of | \
summer in Nassau County. New York.
And we stood up to the witch-hunt begun this
At the same time, we have begun to develop a broader social and political
vision. We have marched for sexual freedom in Gay Rights marches in Boston. New
York, and Washington. We have marched in Washington against Reagan's war against
the people of El Salvador. We have picketed at Bridgewater and at Boston University
against the enforcers of sexual conformity.
The agenda for this conference includes workgroups to develop position papers
or resolutions; an open public meeting with long-time D.C. activist] [
of the Advocate and a fighter for sexual f reedcxn . |
|» and I? a business meeting; and skills workshops.
This conference is being held at a most dramatic period in the history of
NAMBLA. Help Strengthen NAMBLA to resist and overcome repression! To survive we^
must begin to live.
y4 S'' 5 930
AGENDA
FIFTH MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCE ^
NORTH AMERICAN MAN BOY LOVE ASSOCIATION
GAY COMMUNITY CENTER
241 WEST CHASE STREET
BALTIMORE , MARYLAND
OCTOBER 10^11, 1981
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10th
3:00 P.M.
5:00 P.M.
7:30 P.M.
9:00
A.M.
Registration
10:00
A.M.
Welcome. 1 1
10:15
A.M.
NAMBLA continuing response to the
1 L
11:30
A.M.
Comments and Discussion.
12:00
Noon
Lunch. In-house.
1:00
P.M.
Workgroups
], Gay Community Center
1. Hustling
2. Pornography
3. Youth, Sex, and Power.
4. Societal Repression.
Reports of Workgroups
Press Conference
Open Public Meeting with
I |> and I
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11th
A dance may be organized by G.C.C. after the P\ablic
Meeting .
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9:30 A.M.
10:00 A.M.
12:30 P.M.
2:00 P.M.
4:30 P.M.
Coffee.
Membership Business Meeting.]
Lunch at local restaurants.
Plenary Session. Skills Workshops.
Dealing with media
Group Organization
Crisis Management
Adjournment.
This conference is not open to the public. Attendance is restricted to NAMBLA
members, invited observers, and the gay press. The 5:00 P.M. press conference is
open to the straight press. The 7:30 meeting is open to all.
NAME
ADDRESS CITY
STATE
Yes I am coming , save me a place .
I need a place to stay.
My first and second choices for workgroups are:
Hustling Pornography Youth, Sex, and Power Societal Repression
Registration fee is $20 and includes lunch on Saturday. No one will be
turned away for lack of money.
How to get there (from the North) : Take 1-95 South to 1-695 (the
Baltimore beltway) West. Take 1-695 to 1-83 South to Maryland Avenue
exit. Take Maryland Avenue South to West Chase Street. Take West
Chase Street past Park Avenue. The Gay Community center is on the left
at 241 West Chase Street. For information or if you arrive Friday night
call 1301) 366-1386.
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'' DIRECTOR, FBI (145-5920)
SACy. INDIANAPOLIS (145B-778)
Date
11/30/81
Subject :
NORTH AMERICAN-^MAM;/.BQY::-LOyE
ASSOCIATIC^(NAMBLA) ,
POST OFFICE BOX 174,
M IDTOM‘"S^TTgN^"=^^
NEW^YORKT* n¥^7 YORK _jj>018-
ITOH-OHilifEXPL^iT^^
00: NY
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Enclosed for the FBI Laboratory is one original copy of
NAMBLA letter to membership dated October 27, 1981, with
enclosures thereto, as well as NAMBLA Bulletin, Volume Two,
Number Eight . October, 1981, issue which was directed to
I I. received at Indianapolis November 19, 1981.
A copy of the above enclosures are being furnished to New
York and Brooklyn Queens as there are pending investigations'
at both locations.
LEAD
INDIANAPOLIS
At Indianapolis , Indiana
Provide, until further notice, copies of correspondence
received from NAMBLA to FBIHQ and interested divisions.
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2/18/82
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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Laboratory Work Sheet
2/16/82
i
To: SAC, Indianapolis (145B-778)
FBI FILE NO. 145-5920
NORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY LOVE LAB. NO.
ASSOCIATION (NAMBLA) ,
Re; POST OFFICE BOX 174, YOUR NO.
MIDTOWN STATION,
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10018;
ITOM-CHILD EXPLOITATION Examination by;
00; New York
Examination requested by: Indianapolis
Reference: Letter dated November 30, 1981
Examination requested: Documsnt
20216023 D SK
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Specimens received:
February 16, 1982
NAMBLA Bulletin, Vol. 2, No. 8, for October 1981,
published by NAMBLA, P.O. Box 174, Midtown Station,
New York, N.Y. 10018
NAMBLA letter to membership dated October 27, 1981
FBI/DOJ
REOORDED FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION I
12/22/81 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 12/16/81
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Laboratory Work Sheet
To: SAC, Dallas (145-0_
file no. /S/S'-
A/£^ VoJe^ A/./. /ooiSi lab.no. 11216045 D SK
TTOM-SEXUAL
■ EXPLOITATIONil YOUR NO.
OF CHILDREN
Examination by:
Examination requested by:
Dallas
Reference:
Letter dated December
8/ 1981
Examination requested:
Document
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Specimens received: DeceiubGlT 16/ 19 81
Item^67
Copy of NAMBLA Bulletin, Volume 2, Number 6, July-
August 1981, NAMBLA, P.O. Box 174, Midtown Station,
New York, N.Y. 10018
Itemft68
Pamphlet entitled "Introducting the North American
Man/Boy Love Association
^ Itemc.69
Application for Membership in NAMBLA
^Item c70 Photocopy of a two-page handwritten letter dated
^ Friday AM, October 2, 1981, beginning "Dearr I. .
ending Sincerly NAMBLA" with a postscript beginning
"We need a NAMBLA Chapter in Texas ... ending
it's worth looking into"
FBI/OOJ
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Memorandum
aSi IHFOEMATIOT COHTAIKED
•HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
DATE 11-08-2007 BY 60324/ AUC/BAN/STP /'bis
DIRECTOR, FBI
ATTENTION: FBI LABORATORY
SAC, DALLAS a_45-0)
i\lotCrH SK. r C finJ /yiAAJ.
Date 12/8/81
Subject
*'7^^ /yji (STbaijU ^r/STJ
ITOM-SEXUAL EXPLOITATION ^OF '^CHIIl.DRER
WSoy 4<9i/£vfX /^^SotTTfTTorxJ^ i P)
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Enclosed for the Bu are copies of North American Man/
Boy Lovers Association (NAMBLA) material described as NAMBLA
Bulletin Volume 2, Number 6, dated July-August, 1981 pamphlet
"Introducing the North American Man/Boy Lovers Association
Between a Photogiraph of a NAMBLA Contingent and New York City
Gay Pride Match of June 29, 1980, Application for Memmbership,
and handwritten letter dated Friday, October 2, 1981, from NAMBLA.
Enclosed items were obtained from] I, and
received the originals through the U.S. Mail. Former correspondence
with I [of the NAMBLA Steering Committee sometime ago, and
is known toL
through that correspondence.
The handwritten letter addressed to him is believed to
have been written by I L In the P.S. of the handwritten letter,
it is pointed out that NAMBLA wants a chapter, in Texas to aid inmates
of Texas prisons and asked informant if he would be interested in
organizing a chapter for NAMBLA in the State of Texas.
Bu is requested to advise Dallas if informants membership
in Dallas is desired. Informant will not be instructed to exhibit
interest in sponsoring a NAMBLA chapter in the State of Texas unless
instructed to do otherwise by the Bu.
The enclosed items for use by the Bu and may be ma^hlbaiiied
as reference or destroyed.
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Memorandum
0\ From
DIRECTOR, FBI (145B-5920’> 12/21/81
(Attention: FBI Laboratory, Document Section)
SAC, INDIANAPOLIS (145B-778) (P) P
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NORTH AMERICAN-MAN./:BQ:gL LOVE ASSOCIATION
(NAMBLA), ^
PosjL^£ije.e„Bi>x.l74, El
Midtown„St at ion ,
^ew~Yqi^k.,„Noj5uPf.or.k,:. 10018
# Enclosed for the FBI Laboratory, is one original copy of NAMBA
ri., Bulletin. Volume 2, Number 9, November, 1981. The Bulletin was directed
to| I and was received at Indianapolis, Indiana, 12/9/81. A
g*; copy of the enclosure is being furnished to New York and Brooklyn-Queens ,
there are pending investigations at both location.
S leads
Ilk INDIANAPOLIS
At tndiajmpolis , Indiana
.
Provide, until further notice, copies of correspondence received
from NAMBLA to FBIHQ and interested Divisions.
Bureau (Enc. nV
Brooklyn-Queens (31B^116200 (Enc. 1)
New York (145B-3923)/ (Enc . 1)
Indlanapolis^t^
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DIRECTOR, FBI n 4RP1-Rfl;?n:>._^ 9.r\Cj/R9.
(Attention: FBI Laboi^tory, Document Section)
C, INDI ANAP0LIS,X145B-778 ) (P)
rORTH AJIERICAN MAN/BOY LOVE ASSOCIATION
NEW YORK, NEJLYORK^ 10018
IT(^^:^fLDnEm^.ITATl!ON
00: NY
2«222t)o6
Enclosed for the FBI Laboratory is one original copy
of NAMBLA Bulletin, Volinne Two . Number Ten . December, 1981.
The bulletin was directed tol ~L and was received
at Indianapolis, Indiana, on 12/9/81. A copy of the enclosure
is being furnished to New York, Brooklyn-Queens , and
Cleveland in view of the investigations at New York and
Brooklyn-Queens and the investigative interest at Cleveland.
LEADS
INDIANAPOLIS
At Indianapolis. Indiana
Provide, until further notice, copies of correspondence
received from NAMBLA to FBIHQ and interested divisions.
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2/26/82
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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Loboratory Work Sheet
2/22/82
To: SAC, Indianapolis (145B-778)
FBI FILE NO.
145t5920
NORTH AMERICAN MAN /BOY
^®=LOVE ASSOCIATION (NAMBLA) ,
POST OFFICE BOX 174,
MIDTOWN STATION,
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10018;
ITOM-CHILD EXPLOITATION
00 : New York
LAB. NO. 20222086 D SK
YOUR NO.
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Examination by:
Examination requested by;
Reference:
Examination requested:
Indianapolis
Letter dated February 19, 1982
Document
4/m
Specimens received: February 22 , 19 82
Item
74
NAMBLA Bulletin, Vol. 2.,
published by NAMBLA, P.0,
New York, N.Y. 10018
No. 10, for December, 1981
BOX 174, Midtown Statecbn,
FBl/DOJ
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
AIRTEL
WAR 4 1982
DATE:
TO
DIRECTOR, FBI (14
(ATTN: SUPERVISOR
SECTION, DIVISION
SAC, BQMRA (145B-
p-5920)
6)
3923) (P)
ORGANIZED CRIME
SUBJECT;^iORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY LOVE
ASSOCIATION
(NAMBLA)
P.O. BOX 174,
MIDTOWN STATION,
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10018;
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ITOM - SEXUAL EXPLOITATION
OF CHILDREN
(00: BQ)
Retelcal from Sa|
I. FBIHQ, on 3/2/32.
BQMRA,
to Supervisor
Being forwarded to FBIHQ, under separate cover, is one
set of two hundred and sixty-six (266) photographs of the
surveillance conducted at Baltimore, Maryland on 10/11/81 of the
NAMBLA national meeting. BQMRA is attempting to identify
individuals depicted in photographs by coordinating surveillance
log to each frame. Each photograph has been numbered for future
reference .
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To : DIRECTOR, FBI
(Attention: FBI Laboratory Document Section)
IllDIAMAPOLIS (14SE-7781 (P)
Subject ; AMF.RTn/^W MAN/ ROY
ASSOa^^i (NAMBLA)
MIDTOWN STATION. r “
NEW YORK. NEW YORK 10018 { 20-^
ITQM-CHim^gl^ITATION
20423011
00: NEW YORK
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Enclosed for the FBI Laboratory is one original copy of
NAMBLA bulletin, Volume 3, Number 1. January-February . 1982.
The bulletin was directed to I 1 and was received at
Indianapolis, Indiana, on 3/29/82. A copy of the enclosure is
being furnished to New York, Brooklyn-Queens , and Clevel'and, in
view of the investigations at New York and Brooklyn-Qi^ens ''and
the investigative interest at Cleveland. I I ,
LEADS
INDIANAPOLIS
At Indianapolis. Indiana
Provide, until further notice, copies of correspondence
received from NAMBLA to FBIHQ and interested divisions.
3/ ~ Bureau (Enc. u)
2 - Brooklyn-Queens (31B-11620) (Enc. 1)
2 - Cleveland (Enc. 1)
(Attention: SA| b
2 - New York (Enc. 1)
2 - Indianapolis
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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Laboratory Work Sheet
4/23/82
Xo: SAC, Indianapolis (145B-778)
NORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY
LOVE ASSOCIATION (NAMBLA)
POST OFFICE BOX 174,
MIDTOWN STATION,
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10018;
ITOM^CHILD EXPLOITATION
00; New York
FBI FILE NO.
LAB. NO.
YOUR NO.
14^920
20423011 D SK
Examination requested by:
Reference;
Examination requested:
Indianapolis
Let€er dated April 14, 1982
Document
Examination by:
(575-5.77
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Specimens received:
Item 75
Item 76
April 23, 1982
Original copy of NAMBLA bulletin. Volume 3, Number 1,
January-February, 1982, published by NAMBLA, P.O.
Box 174, Midtown Station, New York, New York 10018
Typewritten form letter dated February 24, 1982,
beginning "Dear NAMBLA Supporter; ..." signed
]
tern 77
NAMBLA pleaged card for the NAMBLA Emergency Defense
Fund for 1982
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lORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY LOVE ASSOCIATION -CNAMBLA}-! FPC-
REURAIRTEL MARCH
A CHECK OF HEADC3UARTERS RECORDS REVEALED A PENDING 145
CITOM - CHILD EXPLOITATION} FILE ON NAMBLA . SAN FRANCISCO,
NEW YORK AND BROOKLYN -C3UEENS ARE ORIGIN.
INVESTIGATION WAS INITIATED IN ORDER TO DEVELOP ANY PERTI-
NENT DETAILS, AND OBTAIN THE IDENTITIES OF INDIVIDUALS IN RE-
GARD TO VIOLATIONS OF THE FEDERAL SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHIL-
DREN STATUTE, TITLE Ifl, U-S- CODE, SECTIONS EE51, BE5E AND E4E3
A REVIEIi) OF MATERIAL AVAILABLE INDICATES THAT NAMBLA IS A
i GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS ADVOCATING SEX ACTS BETWEEN CONSENTING
‘individuals regardless OF AGE OR SEX. A NAMBLA BULLETIN IS
PUBLISHED ON A CONTINUING BASIS.
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ACCORDING TO THE FILE-, NAtlBLA’S GOAL IS TO END THE LONG-
STAN]>ING OPPRESSION OF MEN AND BOYS INVOLVED IN ANY MUTUALLY-
CONSENSUAL RELATIONSHIP BY:
1- BUILDING A SUPPORT NETWORK FOR SUCH MEN, AND BOYSi
E. EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ON THE BENEVOLENT NATURE OF MAN/
BOY LOVE*.
3. COOPERATING WITH THE LESBIAN-, GAY-, AND OTHER MOVEMENTS
FOR SEXUAL LIBERATION^
SUPPORTING THE LIBERATION OF PERSONS OF ALL AGES FROM
SEXUAL PREJUDICE AND OPPRESSION.
NAMBLA BELIEVES SEX IS GOOD AND WHOLESOME. IT SUPPORTS
THE RIGHT OF YOUNG PEOPLE-, AS WELL AS ADULTS-, TO CHOOSE FREELY
THE PARTNER WITH WHOM THEY WISH TO SHARE AND ENJOY THEIR
BODIES. IT ENCOURAGES AND SUPPORTS YOUNG PEOPLE IN THEIR
REBELLIONS AGAINST THE ANTISEXUAL RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED UPON
THEM BY ADULTS— PARENTS-, POLICE-, MORAL CRUSADERS-, THE CHURCH-,
THE LAWt and the STATE. THEY OPPOSE AGE-OF-CONSENT LAWS AND
OTHER LEGISLATION AGAINST THE FREEDOM OF YOUTHS-
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
AIRTEL
DATE: APR 2 3 1982
: DIRECTOR, FBI (1il5B-5920)
(ATTN: SUPERVISOR! I
ORGANIZED CRIME SECTION, DIVISION 6)
^ROM' iP'BROOKLYN-QUEENS MRA (1A5B-3923) (P) (BQ-3) r
Z)
SUBJECT: WORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY LOVE ASSOCIATION % fJ
(NAMBLA)
P.O. BOX 17N, MIDTOWN STATION 1 0
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10018;
ITOH-SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN
(00: BQ)
Enclosed for the Bureau’an’d each recipient office are
one copy each of the ^following .documents : Bureau airtel to all
SACs, dated I/3O/8I, titled, "Sexual Exploitation of Children,"
and Public Law 95-225 "Protection of Children Against Sexual
Exploltatlcr. Act «f 1977.- . , ^ C# r\,'c
Aamlplstratlve; DE-127 / ^'/ .3 J /
The Bureau is requested to submit lead to the Legal
Attache , Legat , London, England, for coverage as set forth in the
lead CO "Legat London."
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Bureau (145B-5920) (Ends. 2T U
2 - Baltimore (145B-1122) (Ends. 2 ) '^ EUCJDOSURE ATTACHED
3 - Boston (145B-792) (Ends. 2)
2 - Butte (Ends. 2)
2 - Cleveland (Ends. 2) (Attn; SA j
2 - Indianapolis (145B-778) (Info.) (Ends. 2)
2 - Los Angeles (Ends. 2)
2 - Miami (Ends. 2)
2 - Newark (Ends. 2)
2 - New Haven (Ends. 2)
2 - Norfolk (Ends. 2)
2.'- Philadelphia (Ends. 2)
2 - Phoenix (Ends. 2)
2 - Pittsburgh (Ends. 2)
2 - Portland (Ends. 2)
2 - Richmond (Ends. 2)
2 - San Francisco (145B-1294) (Ends. 2)
2* -j: Washington Field Office (145B-735) (Ends
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For the Information of the Bureau and receiving offices,
BQHRA Investigations based on violations of Title 18, United
States Code, Sections 2251, 2252, and 2H23, relating to the
Sexual Exploitation of Children Act of 1978, have resulted in
several individuals being identified as members of captioned
organization. The North American Man/Boy Love Association
(NAMBLA) is composed of pederast/boy lovers who openly express
their views and attitudes in a monthly publication titled the
"NAMBLA BULLETIN." The NAMBLA philosophy, as expressed in these
publications, reveal their attitude toward present state and
federal laws relating to sexual activity with children. From a
NAMBLA BULLETIN was the following: "NAMBLA is an organization
founded in response to the extreme oppression of men and beys
involved in consensual sexual and other relationships with each
other. Its membership is open, to all individu^als sympathetic to
Man/Boy Love in particular and sexual freedom in general. NAMBLA
is strongly opposed to age of consent laws andother restrictions
which deny adults and youth the full enjoyment of their bodies
and control over their lives. ‘ NAMBLA's goal is to end the
long-standing oppression of men and boys involved in any mutually
consensual relationship by:
1. Building a support network for such men and boys.
2. Educating the public on the benevolent nature of
man/boy love,
3. Cooperating with the lesbian, gay and other
movements for sexual liberation.
. Supporting the liberation of persons of all ages
from sexual prejudice and oppression.
The NAMBLA BULLETIN continues:
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"We belive sex is good and wholesome. We support the
right of young people, as well as adults, to choose freely the
partner with whom they wish to share and enjoy their bodies. We
encourage and support young people in their rebellions against
the antisexual restrictions imposed upon them by adults -
parents, police, moral crusaders, the church, the law, and the
state. We oppose age - of consent laws and other legislation
against the freedom of youths."
On October 11 and 12, 1932, NAMBLA held its 5th General
Membership Conference at the Gay Community Center (GCC), 241 West
Chase Street, Baltimore, Maryland. Physical surveillance and
photographic coverage of this conference was conducted by
Baltimore SAs assisted by SA | L BQ?1R A . The
surveillance disclosed individuals entering the GCC who were
associated with vehicles which bore registrations listed to the
following individuals and/or corporations:
STATE OF MARYLAND REGISTRATIONS:
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STATE OF NEW YORK REGISTRATIONS
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n^»63r.r. * s Apparel Ir,c.
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2 6 Wor^h M.a.l.r;,.^S.t.c.eje-t
Rochester, New Hampshire
STATE OF NEW JERSEY REGISTRATIONS:
PA 92863 K
PA 68065S
CA 2U1TFN
NH 587^'»'»
OH 5Z0605
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NJ 2«0 KDL
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STTE OF VIRGINIA REGISTRATIONS:
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VA XDL «»25
VA OYVEGA
WASHINGTON, D.C. REGISTRATIONS:
WDC 660-08'!
WD 129865
GCC)
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Set forth below is all the ir.foraation presently known
to BQHRA regarding its organization and raembers:
HAMBLA Headquarters
P.O. Box 17*»
Midtcwn Station
New York, NY 1901S
(212) ‘•75-0987
(212) 9N2-A560 - Information regarding NAMBLA
Activities
NYC Chapter meeting held at 151 H. 19th St., 7th
floor , NYC on 2/16/81 .
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BALTIMORE CHAPTER INFORMATION
- NAMBLA BULLETIN of December, 1981 - warned members cf
increased police activity at the following locations:
1. Patterson Park intersectoin of Linwood/Eastern
Avenues
2. Wyman Park
3. Heeht Company Restrooms at Rei ster stowr. Plaza
- observed at NAMBLA 5th Membership Conference in
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ember (| P ; observed at
bershlp Confererce in Baltimore ,
ng with I |ir. BQ
12
ield Street
Sult'e' 8“^Q
Boston, Massachusetts 02105
(same address as Glad Day Bookshop where Boston Chapter
held meeting on 2/19/31).
- advertised in the NAMBLA Bulletin (Fall, 1951)
indicating "get the latest dope on nan-boy love, pornography and
erotics, S and M, and whatever else is hot."
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Member (
July 6, 1981
Committee
released
- NAMBLA Prisoner Correspondant : Steering
]) ; Defense Fund Coordinator (\
from Berkshire House of Correction, Pittsfield
Massachusetts, where he had been serving a two-year sentence
on
for
- Steering Committee Member (| D ; Steering Committee
met at his residence on 2/28/81; wrote article in a New York
City gay newspaper titled "The Ugly Truth About Chickenhawks ; "
possibly attended the NAMBLA 5th Membership Conference in
Baltimore on 10/10/81 in the company of| [
c/o Nova''**X^
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- NAMBLA member
of the Mcnteagle Te
who is writing a novel on
nnessee. Boys Farm;
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the rise and
Vehicle Registration:
lY 8030 ACG
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-I I was associated with many NAMBLA members
and travelled interstate with several of them; BQMRA desirous of
locatlngl |for additional interviews in an attempt to obtain
essential information against these members;
- NAHBLA Steering Committee Member
la sub-group of NAMBLA
from the
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BULLETIN {
- a photograph of this male youth appeared ir; the NAMBLA
]) as the "current Video Games Champ;"
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- reported in the NAMBLA Bulletin
) about
this long-time gay activist and one of the co-founders of the Los
Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Services center, spoke at the
Los Angeles NAMBLA Chapter Meeting on 2/22/82 at the National Gay
Archives, 165*» North Hudson, Hollywood, California;
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- active NAMBLA Member; presented
discussion at NAMBLA meeting on 1/17/81; information
that I ] has
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a 1 year old male lover; NAMBLA BULLETIN
]) reported they have engaged Attorney[
developed
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J"to sue
the media, the District Attorney of Nassau County, (Hew York) and
the FBI for libel and civil rights violations". ( BQ|
|has submitted Freedom of Information-Privacy Acts (FOIPA)
requests relating toj H and | |(BQ
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(See[
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FBI# :
SS-A'N#
-NAMBLA Member (1
author of
I) ; closely associated with
I. Detroit -Lanslr.g RA |
-NAMBiA BULLETITI d I) reported- that | I
uas ImprlsiORed at Patton State Hospital, California as a sexual
deviatt^ (boy-lover) and he wants to join NAMBLA;
- HAMBLA BULLETIM“*r'S'por ted that| |was incarcerated
at the Bridgewater Correctional Institute where he was classified
as a "sexually dangerous person"; NAMBLA appropriated $550.00 for
his defense;
Lond-on •- SE33QD England
- a pedophilia organization similar to NAMBLA;
membership $25.00/ year;
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Vehicle; NY 260 KCN
NYCPD B#:|
- observed at HAMBLA 5th Membership Conference at
Baltimore, 10/10/81;
A Member; attended f
proceedings ^n August, 1931 withi
- NAMBLA
] court
- NAM“BlT"B‘ulletir. d I) reported thatP |was
questioned by police concerning his NAMBLA member shi p H ^
working on a social science re.search project related to man-boy
love ;
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Vehicle; NY 778WGI
Em p 1 o ym e rrff'-^p'trs s i b 1 y
- Steering Committee Member (| ]) ; closely associated
withi "land I IT (BQ| D;|
giver, authority to help with the formation of HAMBLA Chapters;
information developed that I lir.volved in child pornography
business and supplied much of the pornography seer, at NAMBLA
meetings;
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-NAMBLA Member; close aggoclate of| |
and indicted in that case ( BO I | spoke at the
Emergency meeting of the WAMBLA Steering Committee following the
larres ~l);
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became involved in WFO
Iknown to associate with WAHBLA members t
case (WF
identified as engaged in the solicitation of children for
prostitution /pornographic activities;
]) having been
LEADS; ,
All Receiving Offices are requested to Conduct a General
Indices Check regarding the following individuals, as their
present residences are unknown:
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REQUEST OF THE BUREAU
AT LEGAT, LOUDON. Will attempt to obtain information
regarding PIE - PAEDOPHILE INFORMATION EXCHANGE, P.O. Box 318,
London SE 3SQD England, their involvement regarding pederast/boy
lover activities and any association to the North American
Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) in the United States.
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BALTIMORE
AT BALTIMORE, MARYLAND. Will conduct Indices, D?^V.
and arrest record checks regardiRg |
2. Will supply any updated Information available
regardingl ~ I
|, and I that
has beem developed since Baltimore airtel to BQMRA, dated
1 1/19/81 .
3. Will attempt to locate and interviewl
|, to
determine if she is | | op JI If so, will
determine present whereabouts cfQ fin order that he
may be interviewed regarding NAMBLA activities.
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AT BOSTON. MASSACHUSETTS. Will conduct indices.
DMV, and arrest record checks regarding |
I. vehicle registration. Mass.
868BVL.
2. Will conduct indices and records checks
regarding the Glad Day Bookshop (2nd floor). 22 Brorofield Street,
Boston, Massachusetts, and | L also attempt
to determine if NAMBLA meetings held at this location.
3. Will conduct indices and record checks
regarding the Gay Community News, 22 Bromfield Street, Suite SOO,
Boston, Massachusetts, and attempt to determine relationship to
the Glad Day Bookshop.
4. Will conduct indices. DMV, and arrest record
checks regarding I I. who was brought to trial
in Springfield, Massachusetts during March, 19S1.
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5. will cor.duct indices, DMV, and arrest record
checks regarding! L who was released from the Berkshire
House of Correction, Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
6. Will conduct indices. DMV, and arrest record
checks regarding! I.
JU.
regarding
residents involved with NAMBLA7
Will conduct indices and record checks
and ! !, possible Boston
AT ROCHESTER. NEW HAMPSHIRE. Will conduct indices and
records checks regarding Rosann’s Apparel Inc., 25 North Main
Street, Rochester, New Hampshire, vehicle registration, NY
5374A4.
regarding
Apparel Inc.
2.
Will conduct indices and reco'rds checks
L who may be affiliated with ROSANN's
AT PORTLAND, MAINE. Will conduct indices and arrest
record checks for I L
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AT BUTTE, IDAHO. Will conduct indices and records
checks attempting to identify
CLEVELAND
AT WATERVILLE, OHIO. Will conduct indices, DMV. and
^arrest record checks in an attempt to further identify
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LOS ANGELES
AT LOS ANGELES. CALIFORNIA. Will conduct indices,
DMV. and arrest record checks in an attempt to further identify
2. Will conduct indices and records checks in an
attempt to further identify the Los Angeles NAMBLA Chapter, P.O.
Box A8772, Los Angeles, California 900*18.
Will attempt to locate and interviewl
regarding her knowledge of| | and his present
whereabouts in order that he may be interviewed about NAVBLA
activities .
H. Will conduct Indices --and record checks
regarding | I, the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian
Community Services Center, and the National Gay Archives, 155*1
North Hudson, Hollywood, California, is an attempt to further
identify their association with the NAMBLA organization.
AT PATTON. CALIFORNIA. Will conduct indices. DMV. and
arrest cheeks regarding] ~l
MIAMI
AT MIAMI, FLORIDA. Determine subscriber to
telephone number | |7 possiblvl |of
I L CBR at this number. I f I I located ,
interview regarding present wherabouts of | (in order that
he may be interviewed regarding NAMBLA activities.
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AT ELIZABETH. NEW JERSEY. Will conduct an indices
check fori lir. an attempt to further identify!
I 1, vehicle
registration NJ 2A0 KDL.
AT NEWARK. NEW JERSEY. Will conduct an indices
check fori |in an attempt to futher identify this
individual .
to fur then
number |
checks .
AT NORTH BRUNSWICK MANOR. NEW .lERSEY. Will attempt
identify! I, aka;1 1. telephone
T through indices, DMV and arrest record
identi
number
AT PARAMUS. NEW JERSEY. Will
I, vehicle registration
1 through indices
records checks.
attempt to further
I, telephone
NJ-W2JC,|_
DMV, and arrest
2. Will conduct indices and record checks
regarding Alyson Publications, P.O. Box 73, Paramus, New Jersey
07652 , noting it to be the same address as above for |
3. Will attempt to determine the existence and
location of a NAMBLA Chapter in New Jersey in consideration that
the NAMBLA BULLETIN set forth the following address: NAMBLA
Publications, P.O. Box 73* Paramus, NJ 07652 (same as above).
NEW HAVEN
AT BRIDGEWATER. CONNECTICUT. Will attempt to
further identifyl L reported to be incarcerated at
the Bridgewater Correctional Institute; attempt to determine
facts regarding his incarceration.
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NEW YORK
AT WAINSCOTT, NEW YORK. Will conduct local arrest
checks and record checks In an attempt to further identify |
I I. DOB ; I I. vehicle
registration, NY 8030 ACG.
NORFOLK
AT NORFOLK. VIRGINIA. Will conduct indices . DMV.
and arrest record checks in an attempt to
further identifyl
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PHILADELPHIA
AT BELEFONTE, PENNSYLVANIA.
Will conduct indices.
DMV. and arrest record checks regardingl 1
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AT HARRISBURG. PENNSYLVANIA
. Will conduct indices, ^6
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AT PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. Will conduct
indices, DMV, and arrest record checks regardingl
andl
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2. Will attempt to determine the existence cf a
NAMBLA Chapter in Philadelphia.
PHOENIX
AT PHOENIX. ARIZONA. Will conduct indices. DMV.
and arrest record checks regarding! I.
I I. in an attempt to further identify this
individual and the possible formation cf a NAMBLA Chapter in
A/ i zona .
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PITTSBURGH
AT BEAVERTON. OREGON. Will conduct indices. DHV.
and arrest checks in an attempt to further identify]
c/o Nova, Box 113» Beaverton, Oregon 97005.
RICHMOND
AT RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Will conduct indices. DMV.
and arrest record checks in an attempt to further identify]
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SAN FRANCISCO
AT SAN FRANCISCO. CALIFORNIA. Will attempt to
further identify the San Francisco NAMBLA Chapter, Box 8*t1S, 537
Jones Street, San Francisco, California, 9**102, telephone (415)
441-0958, through indices and record checks.
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2. Will attempt to further identify P
located ini,
WASHINGTON FIELD OFFICE
AT WASHINGTON. D.C. Will conduct indices, DMV, and
arrest record checks in an attempt to further identify]
and ] T
2. \7ill attempt to determine the existence and
location of a NAMBLA Chapter in the Washington, D.C. area.
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“(b) As used in this section —
“ ( 1 ) tlic term ‘minor’ means a person under tlie age of eigliteen
years;
“ (2) the term ‘prohibited sexual conduct’ means —
“(A) sex\inl intci-eoui'se, including genital-genital, oral-
genital, anal-genital, or oral-anal, whether between persons
of the same or opposite sex ;
“(B) bestiality;
“(C) masturbation;
“(D) sado-masochistic abuse (for the purpose of sexual
stimulation) ; or
“(E) lewd exhibition of the genitals or pubic area of any
person ; and
“ (3) the term ‘commercial exploitation’ means having as a direct
or indirect goal monetary or other material gain.”.
(b) The table of sections for chapter 117 of title 18, United States
Code, is amended by striking out the item relating to section 2423 and
insetting in lieu thereof the following :
**2423. Transportation of minora.”.
Sec. 4. If any provision of this Act or the application thereof to
any person or circumstances is held invalid, the remainder of the Act
anil the application of the provision to other persons not similarly
situated or to other circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
Approved February 6, 1978.
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LECISUTJVE HISTORY.
HOUSE REPORTS: No. 95-696 accompinying H.R. 8059 (Comm, on the Judiciary) and
No. 95-811 (Comm, of Conference).
SENATE REPORTS; No. 95-4>38 (Comm, on the Judiciary) and No. 95-601 (Comm, of
Oinfcrence).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD:
VoL 123 (1977): Oct. 10, considered and passed Senate.
Oct. 25, considered and passed House, amended, to lieu of H.R.
8059.
Nov, 4, Senate agreed to conference report.
Vol. 124 (1978): Jan. 24, House agreed to conference report
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Definitions.
Severability.
18 use 2251
note.
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PUBLIC LAW 95-225— FEB. c, i978
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Interstate or
foreign
commerce,
transportation
prohibition.
**(H) such visual or print iiiodium tlepirls such conduct;
or
•‘(2) knowingly moives for the purpose of sale or distribution
for sale, or knowingly sells or distributes for sale, any obscene
visual or print ]iH‘diuin that lias l>oen tninsporte.d or shipped in
interstate or foreign commerce or mailed, if —
‘•(A) tlio producing of sucli visual or print medium
involves the list* of a minor engaging in st*.xual)y explicit
conduct ; and
‘•(H) sucli visual oi’ print medium tlepicts such conduct;
shall he puni.slied n.s provided in subsection (b) of this section.
‘•(b) Any person wlio violat<*.^ tliis section sliall be fined not more
than $10,000, oi imprisoned not more than 10 years, or botli, but, if
such person has a prior conviction under tliis section, such person shall
1)0 fined not more than $15,000, or imprisoned not less than two years
nor more than 15 year.s, or both.
^§2253. Definitions for chapter
“For the purposes of this chapter, the term —
“(1 ) ‘minor' means any person under the age of sixteen years;
“(2) ‘sexually oxprmil conduct’ means actual or simulated —
“(A) .sexual intercourse, including genital-genital, oral-
genital, anal-genital, or oral-anal, wliether between persons
of the same or opposite sex;
“(B) bestiality:
“(C) masturbation :
“(D) siido-masochistic abuse (foi* the purpose of sexual
stimulation) ; or
^ area of any,
person;
“(3) ‘producing’ means producing, dii'octing. manufacturing,
issuing, publishing, or advertising, for pecuniary profit ; and
“(4) ‘visual or print medium’ means any film, photograph,
negative, slide, book, tnaga/ino. or otlier visual or print medium.”,
(b) The table of chapurs for title 18, United States Code, and
for part I of title 18, Ignited States ('ode. are each amended by insert-
ing immediately after the item relating to chapter 109 the following*
“110. Sexiinl exploitation of children 2251".
Sec. 3. (a) Section 2423 of title 18, United States Code, is amended
to read as follows:
•‘§2423. Transportation of minors
' “(a) Any poi-son w!k) transports, finances in whole or part the
transpoitation of, or otlioi wise causes or facilitates the movement of,
any minor in inteistatc or foreign commcit'e, or within the District
of Columbia oi* any torritoiy or other possession of the United States,
witli the intent —
“(1 ) that such minor engage in prostitution : or
“(2) that .such minor engage in prohibited sexual conduct, if
such person so transport ing, financing, causing, or facilitating
movement knows or has roason to know that such prohibited
sexual conduct will l>e commercially exploited by any person;
shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than ten
years, or both.
Penalty.
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Public Law 95-225
95th Congress
An Act
To amend title 18 of the Tnited States Code rehitine to the sexual exidoitation of
minors, and for other purposes.
Be it emcied hy the Senate ai\d Uoxt^c of Representatives of the
United States of Amrt ha i){ Congress assembled^ Thnt ihh Act may be
cited ns tlie ‘•Protection of Children Against Sexual Exploitation Act
of 1977*-.
Sec. 2. (n) Title IS. United States Code, is amended by inseiling
immediately after clnapter 109 the following:
“Chapter 110— SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN
**Spc'.
“2251. Sexual exploitation of children.
“2252. Certain activities relating to material involving the sexual exploitation
of minors.
“2253. Definitions for chapter.
Ҥ 2251. Sexual exploitation of children
“(a) Any piMson who employs, uses, persuades, induces, entices, or
coerces any minor to engage in, or who has a minor assist any other
person to engage in, any sexually exj)1icit conduct for the pur]>oso of
proihicing any visual or print medium depicting such conduct, shall
be punished as provide<l under subsectioji (c), if such person knows
or has reason to know that .such visual or print medium will be trans-
ported in intei state or foreign commerce or mailed, or if sucli visual or
pnntnh”e7lhmi lias act uaiiy^been triujsportedrirrinteista
coinmorce or mailed.
“(b) Anv parent, legal guardian, or person having custody or con-
trol of a mnior Avho knowingly permits such minor to engage in. or to
assist any other person to engage in, sexually explicit conduct for the
purpose of producing any visual or print medium depicting such con-
duct .shall br j>nnished as provided under subsection (c) of this section,
if such parent, legal g:uardinn, or person knows or has reason to know
that such visual or prijit medium will be transported in interstate or
foreign coinmerre or mailed or if such visual or print medium has actu-
ally been transported in interstate or foreign commerce or mailed.
“(c) Any person who violates this section shall be fined not more
than or imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both, but, if
sucli peT*son lias a prior conviction under this section, such person shall
be fined not jnore than .S15,000, or imprisoned not less than tw'o years
nor more than 15 years, or both.
2252. Certain activities relating to material involving the sexual
exploitation of minors
‘•(a) Any person who —
‘‘(1) knowingly transpoits or ships in interstate or foreign
commerce or mails, for the purpose of sale or distribution for
sale, any obscene visual or print medium, if —
“(A) the producing of such visual or print medium
involves the use of a minor engaging in sexually explicit
conduct; and
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Feb. 6, 1978
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Protection of
Children Against
Sexual
Exploitation Act
of 1977.
18 use 2251
note.
18 use 2251.
Penalty.
18 use 2252.
Interstate or
foreign
commerce, sale
and distribution
prohibition.
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Each field office is requested to advise FBIHQ, Organized
•Crime Section, by 2/16/81, of all pending office of origin investi-
gative matters involving child exploitation and child pornography.
Thereafter, each field office is to prepare a semi-annual airtel
by the first of every August and February listing all pending office
of origin matters wherein child pornography is a substantive part
of the investigation. Include in this airtel a brief description
of each case as well as anv accomplishments achieved.
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Aiztel to ALL SACs
Re: SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN
CONTACTS WITH U. S. CUSTOMS SERVICE
In addition to the FBI and U. S. Postal Service, the
U. S. Customs Service has an investigative interest in the
importation of pornographic material into the United States. The
Customs Service is able to seek forfeiture of the pornographic
materials under Title 19, USC, Section 1305. Each regional office
of the Customs Service maintains a "seizure list" of suspected
recipients of imported and prohibited pornographic material and of
the foreign shippers of this material. In most instances the
materials seized by the Customs Service are held until forfeiture
proceedings are completed and thereafter the materials are
destroyed.
Experience to date has revealed that a large portion
of commercial child pornography is produced in Europe and
exported to the United States where it is frequently duplicated.
When materials seized by Customs are destroyed, valuable
intelligence data for technical laboratory comparisons is lost.
Proof of the foreign origin of such materials including the
identiti.es_ajn,d,„^dresses of individuals and companies engaged in
this foreign commerce 'Cl:h'"be'“documeivted'-by^our-*FBJk^I^pra tor y for
future comparisons with other submitted pornographic ma?efXarr^"“^
Consequently, each of the following port of entry offices
namely Baltimore, Boston, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Mew Orleans,
New York, Seattle and San Francisco should establish immediate
contact with the respective regional office of the 0. S. Customs
Service and determine from them whether the seized child pornography
can be turned over to the FBI for laboratory comparisons. These
offices should also contact the appropriate USA’s Office to determine
if a court order is necessary for the Customs Service to release
this material to the FBI since Title 19. USC. Section 1305 calls
for the destruction of such material after any civil or criminal
proceedings are litigated. Additionally it is requested that the
aforementioned field offices obtain from the regional Customs
Service any "seizure lists" pertaining to child pornography.
If this material can be turned over to the FBI, monthly
contacts should be made with the Customs Service to obtain the child
pornography and "seizure lists" for submission to the FBI Laboratory.
The Customs Service and the appropriate USA should be contacted to
see if a court order can be obtained indicating that FBI Laboratory
will destroy the mateiial after its laboratory usefulness is complete
The above port of entry offices are to advise FBIHQ.
Organized Crime Section of the results of these contacts.
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a suspected child molester because he may not permit a child to
enter a location if he believes the child may be molested.
^ Finally, an experienced local defense attorney can continue a
' child molesting prosecution for so long that the victim will
either become uncooperative or will not be able to testify because
he or she has subconsciously blocked the entire incident from
memory .
Because of the nature of the violators and the
difficulties frequently encountered by local prosecutors, serious
consideration should be given to federal prosecution of a
noncommercial child pornography case if one or a combination of the
following factors exists;
1. More than three seizures over the past year;
2. A large quantity of child pornography imported
at one time;
^3. An arrest history of crimes against children;
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Each case will be examined individually by the USA's
office to see if prosecution is warranted.
Prosecution of non-commercial child pornography cases
can be undertaken with a combination of the above factors by
utilizing the provisions of Title 18, DSC, Sections 1461, 1462,
or 1465.
Known membership in a family "^esr'gro'up;- '- — —
Employment involving children;
Photographs depicting the recipient involved
in sexual activity with children;
Correspondence with other pedophiles or under-
cover Agents relating to sexual involvement
with children; and
Distribution of material.
Regardless of what decision is made with regard to
prosecuting federally, if there are indications that child abuse
is present, the FBI should insure that the matter is called to
the attention of local investigators and prosecutors.
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case. Workload problems and other considerations may also
dictate the choice of venue. Furthermore, if a case is to be
based solely upon test purchases by investigators, it will
be venued in the district of origination of the obscene mailing
rather than some other district, unless the Government has some
information showing that there were prior mailings into the
recipient district by the individual involved. Prosecutions
will not be brought in jurisdictions through which obscene material
passes in transit except in unusual circumstances and only with
the express concurrence of the General Litigation and Legal
Advice Section.
INVESTIGATIVE AND PROSECUTIVE PRIORITY
Prosecutive priority should be given to cases involving
large-scale distributors who realize substantial income from
multi-state operations and cases in which there is evidence of
involvement by known organized crime figures. However, prosecution
of cases involving relatively small distributors not meeting
the above criteria, particularly distributors of especially offensive
~mater-i-a-l-^or:.-Who _g^e the subjects of numerous citizen complaints,
can have a deterrent ef'fect-=and— wo.uld.^dispel any notion that
obscenity distributors are insulated from prosecution-if^their
operations fail to exceed a predetermined size or if they
fragment their business into small-scale operations. Therefore,
the occasional prosecution of such distributors may be
appropriate.
Special priority should be given to cases involving the
use of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct for the
purpose of producing any visual or print medium depicting such
conduct or cases involving the mailing or interstate or foreign
shipment of obscene material depicting minors engaging in sexually
explicit conduct (Title 18, USC, Sections 2251-2253).
Investigation has shown that many individuals who
import or consensually exchange child pornography for their own
collections do so repeatedly and with full knowledge that it is
illegal to do so. In addition, many of these individuals regularly
engage in sexual child abuse. Many of these people are also
involved in occupations which bring them into frequent contact
with children. Prosecution of these individuals by local
authorities for child molesting is often unsuccessful for several
reasons. First, the victimized children are often introduced
to the sexual activity by their own parents or friends of the
family and participate in a family sex group, and therefore the
authorities have little chance of gaining the youngsters'
cooperation. Second, a significant group of children are those
who are emotionally neglected and who are befriended only by the
pedophile, creating a strong bond between the two. Third, a
local police investigator often can not work up a case against
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to identify the child and offer proof of age in order to establish
'this element of the offense. In light of the clandestine fashion
in which obscene films and magazines are produced, this will
often be impossible. Therefore, in such instances, it may
be necessary to limit prosecutions to materials depicting
children who are obviously younger than 16.
Fourth, the conduct made criminal in the child
pornography statutes is also prohibited by the ITOM statutes. In
fact, the latter statutes are technically broader than Title 18,
use. Section 2252, since they prohibit the mailing or shipment
of all obscene material and section 2252 is limited to the mailing
or shipment of material portraying minors engaged in "sexually
explicit conduct" as defined in the statute. However, as a
practical matter, the definitions found in the child pornography
statutes are probably broad enough to encompass any material
which would be appropriate for a prosecution under the ITOM
statutes. Since Title 18. USC, Section 2252 is the more recent
■^statute,— and ^was^^e^ specifically to reach the abuse, and its
higher penalties reflect^’Congressi-vjiUdgmer^^ the gravity of the
offense, it should be used in preference to tHe~'iTOM=^statute.s_._^
Finally, the child poriiographv statutes require that
the distribution be for the purpose of sale and thus would not
cover the mere barter or exchange of such material. There is no
such limitation in the traditional ITOM statutes.
Public Law 95-225, which enacted Title 18, USC,
Sections 2251, 2252 and 2253, also made certain changes in
Title 18, USC, Section 2243, a part of the White Slave Traffic
Act, including the extension of the coverage of that provision
to the transportation of minor boys as well as minor girls.
VENUE
With respect to venue in these matters, DOJ has
indicated that cases under the obscenity statutes may be prosecuted
in the district where the material is mailed or deposited with
a facility of interstate commerce, the district of receipt, or
any intermediate district through which the material passes (see
Title 18. USC, Section 3237). In cases where there are
complaints by postal patrons about the unsolicited receipt of
obscene material, the district of receipt would appear to be the
appropriate choice of venue. On the other hand, in cases
involving numerous mailings by a distributor into various district!
the district of origination may be the appropriate venue for the
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LEGAL ELEMENTS OF THE STATUTES
The DOJ has also emphasized that prosecutions should not
be limited to cases involving material actually produced in your
judicial district. Under Title 18, USC, Section 2252, prosecution
is permissible on the basis of material mailed or shipped into,
as well as out of, your district.
Several aspects of this legislation, discussed in the
following paragraphs, are potentially troublesome and may limit
the types of cases which can be successfully prosecuted.
First, Title 18, USC, Section 2251 provides jursidiction
not only in those cases where subject material has moved in
interstate commerce but also in those cases where a defendant
"knows or has reason to know" material will move in interstate
commerce. While there will be no difficulty in establishing
jurisdiction where it can be shown that material, in fact, was
mailed or was shipped in interstate commerce, the alternative
bi“s~i s"f or- ■ jurisdiction -,wX1L:^a;^^ be more difficult to
establish. However, it may be possibl€~to~prov&~a- def^endant
knew or had reason to know that material would move in interstate '
commerce by such factors as (1) the purpose of the production,
(2) the nature and size of the operation, (3) by establishing a
relationship of the defendant to the subsequent use or recipient
of the material such as obtaining correspondence pertaining to
intended shipments, and (4) prior conduct of the defendant with
regard to production and distribution of such material. Of
course, the quality of such evidence will vary greatly from
case to case.
Second, Title 18, USC, Section 2253 defines "sexually
explicit conduct" as, emonq other things, "sado-masochistic abuse
(for the purpose of sexual stimulation)". It may be argued
that this definition is vague for failure to specify whose
sexual stimulation is intended - the defendant's, the child's
or some prospective viewer of the material. However, we think
that Congress intended the definition to be taken in its
broadest sense without limitation, that is, sexual stimulation
of the child, the defendant, or the intended recipients of the
material.
Third, the age of the minor is an element of the offense
in both Title 18, USC, Sections 2251 and 2252. Some obscene
material depicts children who are clearly under the age of 16.
However, the age of the child is not so readily apparent in
other obscene material. In the latter cases, it may be necessary
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I INVESTIGATIONS CONCERNING THE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN
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j Investigations to date indicate that the great majority
j of child pornography cases involve small dealers, generally
! operating out of their homes. Frequently these cases can result
I in sales transactions which oftentimes are initiated by investigators
I as a result of the receipt of information from the Customs Service
i that a particular individual is importing child pornography. These
I cases, although they involve small dealers, may be appropriate for
I Federal prosecution. The material being distributed by these dealers
j is particularly offensive, and Congress, in enacting Title 18, USC,
I Sections 2251-2253, has evidenced, as noted above, a particular
I concern with this problem.
!
! This is not to say that all of these cases should be
j prosecuted. Obviously, each case must be weighed on its own
j merits, and particular factors in particular cases might
I militate against prosecution. Nevertheless, the General
‘ Litigation and Legal Advice Section of the DOJ has requested
that the USA and/or Strike Force contact the Department prior to
I the return of any indictments in this type of investigation.
! Many child pornography cas¥s~ are'”devel©ped^-by__^____,„ .
I investigators through test purchases of such material. The
courts have generally held that test purchases by investigators
! do not constitute entrapment. Therefore, the fact that these
I cases are based upon solicited purchases does not make the
j cases legally defective. However, some indication of a pre-
r disposition to sell, such as evidence of prior sales or some
j indication in correspondence from the subject indicating that he
I has no qualms about engaging in such business, should be present.
! If the correspondence indicates a pre-disposition not to sell prior
i to the solicitation from the investigator, a charge of entrapment
^ might very well be sustainable.
II In FBI investigations any correspondence by Bureau
I I Agents suggesting the sale or exchange of child pornography with
I • potential witnesses or defendants should have the approval of the SAC.
Prior to utilizing this technique, appropriate contacts should be made
with the USA's Office regarding utilization of this technique. It shoulc
be recognized by all field offices that generally any correspondence
initiated by Bureau Agents in these types of investigations will
be subject to future judicial review.
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1. Title 18, use. Section 2251 - Sexual
Exploitation of Children
2. Title 18, use. Section 2252 - Pertains to
. transportation and distribution activity relating
to material involving the sexual exploitation of
minors
3. Title 18, use. Section 2253 -
Provides definitions utilized in these statutes
4. Title 18, use. Section 2423 - Ammended the
WSTA
The specific elements of these statutes were forwarded
to the field with referenced airtel.
Shortly after the enactment of this legislation, the
Department of Justice (DOJ) was requested to provide guidelines
on the investigation of these matters. In furnishing FBIHQ with
guidelines in September, 1980, and thereafter replying to questions
raised by FBIHQ concerning the guidelines, DOJ, in January, 1981,
concluded that the FBI has primary investigative jurisdiction over
Title 18, use, ^ection 2251 (Sexual Exploitation of Children) .
The DOJ agreed wTtlT'FBlHQ‘'“s''observation rega-rd-i-ng— T-it.le_18.;_JLJ,SjZ,
Section 2252 (Transportation of Child Pornography) in that
investigative jurisdiction would be shared with the U. S. Postal
Service depending upon whether the material in question is shipped
in interstate or foreign commerce, or is mailed. If the child
pornography is transmitted in the U. S. mail, investigative juris-
diction would be with the Postal Service.
If during the course of an investigation of a mailing
offense by the Postal Service, pursuant to Title 18, USC, Section 2252,
(Mailing of Child Pornography) , evidence is developed of a violation
of the Child Exploitation Statute (Title 18, USC, Section 2251), the
Postal Service would acquire ancillary jurisdiction over Title 18,
USC, Section 2251 provided the Postal Service keeps the FBI informed
as to the status of the investigation.
The DOJ has advised the U. S. Attorneys' Office that
prosecutive priority should be given to matters involving violations
of Title 18, USC, Sections 2251 and 2252. FBI priority should
continue to be given to any investigative matters involving such
use of children.
Generally, the comments and guidelines furnished to the
U. S. Attorneys' Offices pertain to the below discussed areas and
affect investigations conducted by the Federal Agencies who have
an investigative interest in these matters.
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TRANSMIT VIA:
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CLASSIFICATION:
FROM: ^/J-ector, FBI
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TO
ALL SACs
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DATE:
PERSONAL ATTENTION
SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN:
CHILD PORNOGRAPHY, PUBLIC LAW 95-225;
ITOM MATTERS; WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC ACT;
Re FBIHQ airtel to Albany dated 4/20/78.
SYNOPSIS
This a ir te i: ~ge t s~^f or-th-~gu-i d e I. i nes concerning the investi-
gation and prosecution of crimes involving the sexuar exploitation
children and child pornography. This infonnation, which also
includes an amendment to the White Slave Traffic Act (WSTA) . b6
should be disseminated to all Agents working ITOM investigations b7c
and WSTA matters. The FBI has primary investigative jurisdiction
over Title 18, U. S. Code (USC) , Section 2251 (Sexual Exploitation
of Children). Investigative jurisdiction is shared with the U. S.
Postal Service regarding Title 18, DSC, Section 2252 (Transportation
of Child Pornography) depending upon whether the child pornography is
shipped in interstate or foreign commerce, or is mailed. FBI port
of entry offices are being requested to contact regional offices of
the U. S. Customs Service and appropriate U. S. Attorneys' Offices
to obtain for the FBI Laboratory child pornography seized by the
Customs Service. A semi-annual airtel is being requested from each
field office, the first to arrive at FBIHQ by 2/16/81, listing all
pending office of origin matters having child exploitation and child
pornography as a substantive part of the investigation.
LEGISLATION
On 2/6/78, the 95th Congress enacted legislation dealing
with the use of children in the production of films and photographs
depicting sexual activity, as well as, the distribution of obscene
material depicting children engaging in such^ activity. The
statutes involved are as follows:
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FD-523 (Rev. 9-9-82)
Director, FBI
(Attn: Photographic Processing Unit, Rm. 1B903)
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1. 0PLOSEO PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK RELATES TO:
Current Investigation □ Mug Shot ■ □ Other
2. ENCLOSURE(S)
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Size
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Quantity
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3. WORK REQUESTED
Movie Film or Microfilm Negatives To Be Printed
Size
Color
B&W
Quantity
8x10
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126
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Color
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Quantity
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35mm
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□ Process only (From 1 35, 1 26, and 1 1 0) (Prints from slides) (From any size negative or slide)
^ Process & make print ^ SVzxS □ 5x7 □ 3V2X5 Quantity
□ Process & make contact print _jc^ # prints from each frame □ 5x7 Size
□ Slides to be processed □ Color B&W . . □ 8x10 ' □ Color ‘ □ B&W
□ Slides to be duplicated (From 1 20 and 4)o)
Film To Be Processed Movie Film or Microfilm Negatives To Be Printed Other
Processing Prints^To Be Made : Prints To Be Made Custom Prints
□ Process only . (From 135, 1i26, and 1 10) (Prints from slides) (From any size negative or slide)
0 Process & make print . - B SVaxS □ 5x7 □ 3^2X5 Quantity
□ Process & make contact print ■ # prints from each frame □ ‘5x7 % . Size
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□ Slides to be duplicated (From 1 20 and 4x5)
□ 4x5 . □ 8x10
• # prints from each frame
Color ' □ B&W ■
□ Shipping Room: Show shipment date; bill of lading
number, initial invoice; invoice to be placed in
INSTRUCTIONS
GENERAL
All photographic work must be submitted under the substantive case caption when it relates to an investigative
matter. Include FBIHQ file number when available. All other photographic processing forms (including FD-482) are
obsolete and.should,noLbe.*used. The FD-623 is to be utilized for all photographic processing work forwarded to FBIHQ
except employed^identiflcatioh and/or credential cards. Requests for official FBI identification and credential cards must be
submitted on form FD-464, Attention; Property Procurement and Management Section.
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I The FD-523 may b'e filled out in legible hand printing or typing so that all six pages can be read. The following
infoijnation is,s^Jp/th,to assist in properly filling out this form. Remove third sheet only (yellow field copy) and submit the
remaining Jve.p’ages J
1. ENCLOSED PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK RELATES TO:
All photographic work submitted should be checked as Current Investigation, Mug Shot, or OTHER In
appropriate block. If “OTHER” is checked a short description of what it is should be stated under item #4 (Remarks). -
2. ENCLOSURE(S): c
, Film To Be Processed - Check appropriate column for Color, Black and White film, alongside the size of the
film.. Also, indicate the number of sheets or rolls or cassettes In the quantity column. Slides refer to EXTACHROME
ONLY, DO NOT SEND KODACHROME.
Movie Film Or Microfilm • Check appropriate block for size and quantity. DO NOT SEND COLOR MOVIE
FILM.
Negatives To Be Printed - Check appropriate block for size; Color or Black and White and quantity submitted.
If 1 35mm negatives are to be printed, indicate by frame numbe/,^dp not cut up into individual frames. The same applies to
any roll film.
Other - Enclosures to be copied e.g, photographs, documents, objects, etc.
3. WORK REQUESTED:
Processing - Only means to develop the film and NO COPIES or PRINTS e.g. microfilm.
- Process and Print - Means to develop film and make one or more prints.
, - : . Slides To Be Processed - Means Ektachrome film to be developed and slides mounted.
^ . Slides To Be Duplicated - Means process slide film and make one or more duplicates of, each slide. ,
. „Prints To Be_Made r Prom 135, 126 and1l6 film, check size 3%x5 or 5x7.. These are the only size prints
available from our machine printers. Check Color or Black and White.
From 1 20 and 4x5 Film - Check size 4x5 or 8x1 0 and indicate Color or Black and White. These are the only
size prints available from our machine printers.
Slides - Prints made directly from slides. Machine prints can be made in sizes 3/2x5, 5x7 and 8x10.
Custom Prints - From 'any size negative or slide; indicate quantity and size of prints either Color or Black and
White." Custom prints are available in various sizes but require extensive special, handling. This type of printing Is done on
special request and proper justification must be furnished. under item #4 (Remarks). - - - ‘ '
4. REMARKS: \ i., ■;„m. ■
- , Justification for custom prints. Any special instruction or short description of “other” photographic work' in-
item #1 of this form. i r; ‘
No.Personal Work should be submitted for processing. Any requests which may be misinterpreted as
personal in nature should be explained and approval granted by the Special Agent in Charge or his/her cJesignee.
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NAMBLA SINCE HE WAS 14 AS A VICTIM AND WAS RECENTLY ELEVATED
FROM CHICKEN (VICTIM) TO HAWK (PROCURER) STATUS]
, AND SEVERAL JUVENILE MALES FROM' NEW JERSEY WERE LOCATED
AT A HOUSE IN WAR'EHAM, MASS. .AND IN CONJUtlCTION WITH EXECUTION
OF A SEARCH WARRANT WERE ARRESTED BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES FOR AS-
SAULT WITH THE INTENT TO RAPE. PRIOR TO EXECUTION OF SEARCH WAR-
, VTCT IM
AND OTHER UNKNOWN JUVENILE MALES
DEPARTED WAREhAM-, MASS. FOR 'BOSTON, MASS. TO. MEET WITH ANOTHER
MAMBLA M EMB ER -, | |(L NU ) AND HAVE HOT BEEN SEEN SINCE THAT
TIME.
MOKWOUTH COUNTY, N.J., PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE HAS ISSUED KID-
.^’APPING WARRANTS FORI IANDI IrELATIVE TO THE
[MATTER. ARRANGEMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE WITH PLYMOUTH COUNTY,
MASS. DISTRICT ATTORNEY TO DISMISS CHARGES AGAINSlj j, IN VIEW
OF HIS COOPERATION WITH THEM, AFTER HE TESTIFIES BEFORE A SPECIAL
GRA® JURY -AND TO RELEASE HIM TO MONMOUTH COUNTY AUTHORITIES OH
DECEMBER 2 1, 1982.
Ti-PEC, !')K I45MEW UMCLAS E F T 0
T'^OtR-IOUTH COUNTY AUTHORITIES' HAVE REQUESTED THAT SA
IACCQMPANY then TO PLYNOUTH, MASS, TO PICK UP
IN ORDER THAT I
CAN BE DEBRIEFED RELATIVE TO HIS INVOLVEMENT
I. LOCAL
WITH NAMBLA and POSSIBLE CURRENT LOCATION OF VICTIM
AUTHORITIES HAVE REQUESTED 5A| lACCOMPANY THEM IN VIEW OF HIS
KNOWLEDGE OF NA®LA AND ITS ACTIVITIES.
PRELIMINARY DISCUSSIONS WITH USA’S OFFICE, NEWARK,- N,i HAVE
UDICATED A WILLINGNESS TO PROSECUTE SUBJECTS DEVELOPED IN THIS MAT
ter if elements OF FEDERAL VIOLATION CAN BE ESTABLISHED.
APPROVED FOR SAI
TRAVEL FROM N.J., TO MASS. TO DEBRIEF
WAS GRANTED BY FBIHQ IN REFERENCED TEL CALLS WITH THE CONCUR-
RENCE OF SAC’S BOSTON AND NEWARK.
LEAD;- NEWARK AT RED BANK, N.J.- WILL FULLY DEBRIEF
[relative TO SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILD-
REN BY NAMBLA IN N.J. AND COORDINATE DEBRIEFING BY OT-
HER INTERSETED LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES.
FD-65 (Rev, 2-9-78) t? j i o pt 4.- m rm^mb
ederal Bureau of Investigation ADQXCI
To: Director, PBI • • AIKTtL
Mt: Criminal Investigative Division Date: 12/28/82
CK'I ^ INSTRUCTIONS - Reverse side
From: |SA(|^ NEWARK (E) (RBRA^OTE: Priority “A” and “B” Fugitives - With initial submission,
set forth a synopsis of crime on reverse side.
, CHANGED A
I- VICTIM; I L aka
/ /f J hFUGITIVE ; KD Initial Submission
r a- NORTH. AMERICAN MAN BOY LOVE ASEpp., I 1 Supplements FD-65 dated
f(NAMBlA) ; ifOM- SEXUAL EXPLOITATION
OF CHILDREN
00: NEWARK indicate Fugitive Priority ^
FUGITIVE INDEX..
Indicate Fugitive Priority
□ B Yi
□ C
Caution
Place^oLBirth,
Eye Color
Brown
MKE Name
EYE Hair Color
Brown
HAI I FBI No.
N AM^ Race RAC
' Tji I JT
POB Birth Date DOB Height HGT Weight WGT
' I 1 5‘10" 160
F Bl I Skin Tone SKRT
-I
Scars, Marks, Tattoos, etc.
I
SMT
NCIC Fingerprint Classification
FPC
Other Identifying Number
MNU Social Security #
SOC
1
Operator’s License Number
OLN
Operator’s License State.
OLS Year Expire
OLY
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Offense Charged OFF Kidnapping -Unlawful Flight
U. S. Code, Title and Section T 18. U.S.C.. Section 1073
Warrant Issued By IT . R . Magf enyon on ]
Date PBV or Bond Default Case Referred to Office
Miscellaneous Including Bond Recommended
7777771 DOW if.o. File # 0Ca
2/28/.a2
145B- /^/
Ml S Fingerprint Classification (Henrag^^tem^^^^^
LICENSE PLATE AND VEHICLE INFORMATION
License Plate Number
Lie State
1
m
Year Expires
LIY
License Plate Type
LIT
Vehicle Identification #
VIN Year
VYR Make *
VMA
1 . . ..
Model
VMO
dgAMUjsaB
Style VST Color
VCO
NCIC.#
.. O.:.'
Fugitive ‘tJnit)|
- X .
A’
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J ' r • » J
Title marked, changed"1:o'~ refT^gt r^^
fT:] ..[Qf.. sjib j ectl ; knovm^ aliases, and
fugitive ; status. . , , .u> -u '
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PRIORITY “A” and "B” FUGITIVES - Synopsis of Criinl^.VESTieAT
Hi VI. 5 ! oV'
On 11^9^82,
fpicked .up
white male, age I L and~Era^^o5te^|^^f?|t^:j]!^a?sachusetts -without, ,
consent. On 12/3/82, search warrant -executed .on Nambla Safe.; i roc v r
House in Mass, " ’ . - , - v - . . . r .
House in Mass., and several j^minor boys located at house ^
I Iboy departed prior to s^ear^h 'wajr'tydifc withi land
neither has been seen since that date. On 12/28/82, UFAP ^ 3 i ot
complaint and arrest warrant filed in Newark, N.J. ^0 r// »
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Caution (MKE) - Insert “C” in block if caution statement indicat®; 'Basis for caution statement must appear in
Miscellaneous block, e.g. armed and dangerous.
2. Name (NAM) - Place name in this block. Aliases are not to be entered in this block but are to be placed in
Aliases block.
3. Sex (SEX) - Sex will be designated by one letter, M (male) or F (female).
4. Race (RAC) - Race will be described by one letter, W (white), N (Negro), I (Indian), C (Chinese), J (Japanese),
O (all other). Mexicans who are not definitely Indian or other nonwhite should be described as “W”.
5. Place of Birth (P OB) - Indicate city and state or, if foreign bom, city and country. Where multiple birthplace si*
are reported; list verified birthplacje or that which appe^s most logical in this block.
6. Birth Date (DOB) - Enter as month, day and year. Where multiple birth dates are reported, enter verified- birth
date or that which appeaqs^mbst Idgic^ in this block. JBlace'joth^r'^dates of birth in Additional Identifiers block.
7. Height (HGT) - Express , in feet and inches, e.g., 6* 0”. - Round off fractions to nearest inch.
8. Weight (WGT) - Express in pounds. Omit fractions. " ' "
9. Eye Color (EYE) - Use appropriate three character symbol.
10. Hair Color (HAI) - Use appropriate three character symbol.
11. Skin Tone (SKN) - Use appropriate three character symbol. , ^ ^
12. Scars, Marks, Tattoos, etc. (SMT) - Place in this block only appropriate NCIC coding for scars, meirks, tattoos,
birthmarks, deformities, missing body parts and artificial body parts as defined in NCIC Operating Manual, If
more than one SMT is to be entered, use Additional Identifiers block for additional appropriately coded items.
Use Miscellaneous block to describe all scars, marks, tattoos, etc. which are not defined in the NCIC Operating
Manual and to more fully describe SMT’s which have been entered in SMT block. For example, an appendectomy
scar, not being readily visible, would be described in the Miscellaneous block. A tattoo on right arm, shown as
TAT'R ARM in block, might be further described in Miscellaneous block as a rose tattoo on inside of lower right
arm.
13. NCIC Fingerprint Classification (FPC) - Enter NCIC fingerprint classification. >
14. Other Ideh'tify in g Number (MNU) - Miscellaneous numbers may be entered with appropriate; identifiers -,( prefixes). ^ * i
For first miscellaneous identifying number, use MNU block. When military service number is in fact Social Security
Account Number, the number should be entered^in both MNU and SOC blocks. Additional identifying numbers are
placed in Additional Identifiers. -block. The identifier (prefix) should precede the number and be se plated from the
number by use of a hyphen. See NCIC Operating Manual, Part 9, page 26 for appropriate agency identifiers.
15. Fingerprint classification (Henry System) - The Henry System fingerprint classification is to be placed in this
block, when available. Do not enter in NCIC.
16. Social Security Number (SOC) - Place subject’s Social Security Account Number in this block.
17. Operator's LicenseNumberrPlace subject’s operator’s license number in OLN block. Also show licensing
state (OLS) and year license expires (OLY).
18. Warront Issued By- On- (DOW)- In Escaped Federal Prisoner cases enter date of escape in DOW block.
19. Miscellaneous (MIS).- Enter additional pertinent information in this block. If caution statement used, basis for
statement. must be set? forth, as first item in this block.
20 . L i c en s e P I a t‘e an d V eh i c I ei.1 ni d rm a 1 1 on - . P La c*e in fom att^^ c.qnceni glicense plate an d/or veh id e kno wn to be
in the possession of subject in appropriate blocks under. License^PJate and Vehicle Information heading.
21. Additional Identifiers i-^Enter infomiation concerning additional license plates (number, state, year expires, and where
applicable, type); Socid'Security Numbers; dperator’‘sTibeh&e-^Tiumber, state' and year expires; vehicle information
(VIN, VYR, .VMA,':VMOv VST,-VCO); MN,U*s (see JistJn itpra l4 abqyei; vlsibldj scars, marks, tattoos, etc.; and dates
of birth. Clearly identify what data is being set forth; e.g. Soci'al Security # 423-56-3294; Michigan operator’s license
234567, expires''1972; DOS’s 4/5/32, 5/3/32; etc.
22. Changes ^d dd.le Lion's Jshou Id -^e *po in dictated in», the appropriate blocks.
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CHILDREN? UFAP-KIDNAPPIN6; (00: NEWARK)
RE NEWARK TELEPHONE CALL TO ALBANY, JANUARY 5, 1983; NEWARK
TELEPHONE. call OF ASAC RONALD L. MC LANAHAN TO FBIHQ UNIT CHIEF
CID, JANUARY 3, 1983.
ON
IN regard to ARREST OF CAPTIONED SUBJECT
^DECEMBER 31, 1982, BY SPECIAL AGENTS BURLINGTON, VERMONT, Ra, WITH
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I ASSISTANCE OF LOCAL AND STATE AUTHORITIES, SECOND INDIVIDUAL .SUB-_
SEQUENTLY IDENTIFIED AS
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]HAS OUTSTANDING WARRANT, DALLAS, TEXAS, ON
'ARRESTED. . ,
RELATED CHARGES. HE ALSO FACES ATTEMPTED KIDNAPPING CHARGES IN
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JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY. BASED ON RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN ITOM
INVESTIGATION BEING CONDUCTED BY NEWARK DIVISION ALONG WITH JERSEY
CITY, NEW JERSEY, POLICE DEPARTMENT, INFORMATION DEPICTSi
AS significant FIGURE IN SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN. IN VIEW
OF THIS INFORMATION, LT.| |, DET.| |,
JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, POLICE DEPARTMENT, AND SPECIAL AGENT be
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. I, FBI. NEWARK, WILL TRAVEL VIA NEWARK BUREAU
aANE TO MONTPELIER, VERMONT, FOR PURPOSE OF INTERVIEW REGARDING
|AND COORDINATION OF EVIDENCE/INFORMATION PERTINENT TO
CAPTIONED INVESTIGATION, NEWARK FLIGHT TO DEPART NEW JERSEY 9:00
A.M. , JANUARY 4, 1983 AND SCHEDULED TENTATIVELY TO ARRIVE MONT-
■ PELEIER, VERMONT,, 12 NOON.
^SAC(S) NEWARK AND ALBANY CONCUR WITH THIS TRAVEL, BUREAU
AUTHORITY OBTAINED FROM FBIHQ UNIT CHIEFi |IN REFERENCE |\
TELEPHONE CALL JANUARY 3, 1983. M
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FUGIBVE INDEX
f^AMBLA
RE 12/29/32 TELCAL FROM SAl
CASE AGENT
"i^'C
TO NEW YORK
and NEWARK CASE AGENT
AS SET FORTH REFERENCED TELCAL, INTERVIEW OF
I2/29/S2 REVEAiiED.Ef^LQYEE KNOi
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TO FBI FUGITIVE]!'
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NOT
EMPLOYED BY
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AS BEI/.G IN0IVIDUAL HE KNOWS AS
l^mE NOVEMBER 22, 1932 ByT PROVIDED INFORMATION
!AY INDICATE FUGITIVE’S CURRENT I„Qi;a; V
YEAR /lD
]HELD
ADVISED
OFTEN SEEN IN
WHITE male KNOWN AS
OUT AS HIS SON.
OR
|(LNu) WHO I [YEAR' OLO[
NOT IDENTICAL TO PHOTO..O.F.
C CORDING, TO I |.
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FUTHERIviORE, ON l2/”0/82 AT APPROXIMATELY 2;20PM| |
ILQCATED IN BUS TERMINALHBY PORT AUTHORITY POLICE. SA |
traveled to PORT AUTHORITY WHERE CUSTODY OF| [TuRNED OVER. ■
TO NEWARK CASE AGENTi |FOR RETURN TO PARENTS IN NEW
JERSEY. I liNTERVIE’WED BY | |, INVESTIGATOR,
MONMOUTH COUNTY PGOSECUTORS OFFICE, AT THZ DIRECTION OF FBI AND
RESULTS OF INTERVIEW TO FOLLOW,
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AND JANUARY 1, 1983; AND, ALBANY TELEPHONE CALLS TO NEWARK,
AL 145B-697, PAGE TWO, UNCLAS
IN EARLY MORNING HOURS OF DECEMBER 31, 1982,
DATE OF BIRTHH
, WAS (ARREST ED) BY BUREAU AGENTS AND
OFFICERS O^THE VERMONT STATE POLICE AND HARDWICK, VERMO^IT, POLICE)
DEPARTMEJ^, WITHOUT INCIDENT AT THE RESIDENCE OF
ON JANUARY 1, 1983,
Iap^ar
ARED BEFORE
UNITED ^TATES MAGISTRATE JEROME J. NIEDERMEIER AT RUTLAND, VERMONT,
AND WAS REMANDED TO THE CUSTODY OF THE UNITED STATES MARSHAL’S
SERVICE IN LIEU OF $100,000,00 CASH BAIL. | [AGAIN APPEARED
BEFORE UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE NIEDERMEIER ON JANUARY 3 , 1983.
WAS GIVEN A COURT-
BAIL WAS CONTINUED AT $100,000.00.
APPOINTED COUNSEL. HIS ATTORNEY IS FORMER U. S, ATTORNEY
WILLIAM G. GRA.Y. ATTORNEY GRAY RELATED THAT HIS CLIENT DESIRES TO
POSSIBLY WAIVE EXTRADITION AND RETURN TO NEW JERSEY VOLUNTARILY.
A REMOVAL HEARING, HOWEVER, HAS BEEN SET FOR THURSDAY, JANUARY 6,
1983, AT 1:30 PM.
IN interview WITH
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ON DECEMBER 31, 1982,
ADMITTED
HIS IDENTITY AS
VICTIM
OF WHOSE
]. HE FURTHER ADMITTED TAKING
OWN FREE WILL FROM NEW JERSEY IN
LATE NOVEf'lBER, 1982, TO BLACK MOORE POND NEAR WAREHAM, , FOR
AL 1458-697, PAGE THREE, UMCLAS
approximately two days, relative to this travel,!
ADVISED
THAT A FRIEND, I 1
•fTMEW YORkIcITY.
IN EARLY DECEMBER, 1982,1
RENTED A NATIONAL RENTAL CAR FOR THEM
MASSACHUSETTS, WHERE THEY STAYED FOR A COUPl
[THEN froWl
I
ro BOSTON.
DAYBTlTHItr
ATTEMPTED^ FIND glgLOYMENT. THEY STAYED TWO MOTELS (NAME OF
motels ^pW^ALLroTT^lN BOSTON, JHEY MET// FRIEND, I
Ld ATE OF BIRTH!
FRIEND OF
won,
TO ARRANGE JRAVEl
FRIEND’S VEl
L££&NSBCTROt
TmE}
‘D FORAPPTOTMfTOY^^f^fffi^
HAS DENIED THAT HE KIDNAPPED VICTIM.
RELATED
THAT IN LATE NOVEMBER, 1982 ,|
GOING "UP COUNTRY" AND INDICATED TO|
WITH HIM IF he SO DESIRED. I
INDICATED TO
that HE WAS
THAT HE COULD GO "UP COUNTRY'
RELATED THAT
indicated that
he was unhappy at HOME AND HAD NEVER TRAVELED AND VOLUNTEERED TO
accompany
'UP COUNTRY."
DENIED THAT
WAS IN
ANY WAY ENTICED OR INDUCED OR PERSUADED TO ACCOMPANY HIM TO
MASSACHUSETTS AND VERMONT AND THAT
FREELY AND VOLUNTARILY
ACCOMPANIED HIM. HE RELATED THAT DURING THE ENTIRE TIME HE AND
J
AL I45B-697, PAGE FOUR, UMCLAS
[WERE together IN LATE NOVEMBER AMD DECEMBER, 19S2,
WAS
NEVER held against HIS WILL.
further related that during the entire period that
he was with
L HE never engaged IN ANY KIND OF SEXUAL ACTIVITY
WITH HIM, NOR DOES HE HAVE ANY KNOWLEDGE OF ANYONE ELSE HAVING ANY
TYPE OF SEXUAL ACTIVITY WITH HIM.
HE further RELATED THAT HE HAS NO KNOWLEDGE OFI
BEING
INVOLVED IN ANY FORM OF PROSTITUTION- TYPE ACTIVITY OR BEING
PHOTOGRAPHED OR VIDEOTAPED IN THE NUDE OR INVOLVED IN ANY TYPE OF
. SEXUAL ACTIVITY.
HrELATED that he FEELS THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A
■ YOUTH FREELY CONSENTING TO BEING INVOLVED WITH' SOMEONE SEXUALLY AS
'^OSED TO FORCING A YOUTH TO BE INVOLVED IN SEXUAL ACTIVITIES V]
AN adult, he ADVISED THAT HE DISAGREES WITH THE LATTER.
K^l
FOR that reason, HE WAS UNHAPPY WITH A FRIEND OF H
AGE APPROXIMATELYQtoQ- YEARS OLD, WHO HE BELIEVES HAS HAD
SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH A MINOR FROM
w .
AGAINST HIS WILL. |
ADVISED
, DURING THE LATE SUMMER AND EARLY
; FALL. OF 1982 , AND HE, BELIEVES THAT THIS ACTIVITY OCCURRED AT THAT
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145B-S97, PAGE^FIVE, UNCLAS
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ADDRESS.
5
THIS activity BEtl^j
INI
RESIDENCE OF
1, .IS Aj^SO A FRIEND OF
1=#ND I
AMD MAY HAVE WITNESSED!
1 AND DID LIVE WITH
ADVISED THAT HE BELIEVES BOTH
WILL COOPERATE WITH AUTHORITIES WITH REGARD TO
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SEXUAL ACTIVITIES AGAINST
further, Vfm REGARD TO,
MAS^SAXHLISET-TS-,. Iff late NOVEMBER, 1982-,^HE OBSERVED
I WHEN. HE TRAVELED TO WAREHAM,
AND.
Hat tVeI”
1 ADDRESS WITH
TWO RUNAWAY BOYS
V_JS-0M
I
~|(LNU), AGEQ and
](LNU), AGE| |0R
1
I I YEARS.
SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH
ADVISED THAT HE RECALLS HAVING SEEN
ADDRESS IN I
]have
be
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AT
DURING APPROXIMATELY AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER, 1982.
THAT HE HAS NO KNOWLEDGE OF|
THESE TWO INDIVIDUALS..
ADVISED
HAVING ANY SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH
HAS APPROXIMATELY
ALSO RELATED THAT HE HEARD
ten- THOU SAND DOLLARS WORTH OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY HIDDEN SOMEWHERE.
WAS UNABLE TO FURNISH ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION RELATIVE
TO THIS MATERIAL
AL 145B-697, PAGE SIX, UNCLAS
lADVISED TKAT^^O THE SUMMER 0F_4=^82 , HE HAD
OCCASION TO. TALK WITHI L WHO RESIDES In/a HOUSE WHERE
4-
• the POST OFFICE BOX ISQ
Afik5-EXTRtMELY UPSET THAT
SEXUALLY ABUSED BYP
L HAD BEEN
BSSKTJ
(PHONETIC) AGE APPRnXTJviflTFl Y
B.
, A NAMBLA MEMBEmr(
*ppRb^
■when[
]v IS IT ED
IS SUPPOSEDLY SOME TYPE OF
>=DURIN(3 THAT TIME.^
IM
ADVISED THAT HE FEELS
WOULD BE
COOPERATIVE WITH AUTHORITIES AGAINST
SEXUAL ACTIVITIES'=WH /
AS A RESULT OF INFORMATION FURNISHED BY NEWARK DIVISION AND
NEW JERSEY AUTHORITIES,!
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WAS ARRESTED BY VERMONT STATE
POLICE ON A FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE WARRANT. THIS WARRANT STEMS FROM A
AL I45B-697, PAGE SEVEN, UNCLAS
LOCAL KIDNAPPING WARRANT ON
when ARRESTED,
IN JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.
identified himself as
DATE OF BIRTH
NAJIE OF
^WEVER, DURING THE SEARCH“oF
JRESIDENCE, A TEXAS DRIVER’S LICENSE WAS RECOVERED IN THE
THE PHOTO ON THIS lR®E BEARS A STRONG RESEMBLANCE TO
A RESULT OF THIS INFORMATION, IDENTIFICATION DIVISION WAS CONTACTED
ON DECEMBER 31,, 1982, AND THROUGH FINGERPRINT COMPARISON, IT WAS
DETERMINED THATl 1lS IDENTICAL TO
I, FBI NO,
1 DATE OF
birth:
SHOW that
IDENTIFICATION RECORDS
JWAS SENTENCED. ON SEPTEMBER 12, 1980, ^ TO THREE
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YEARS TO THE COLORADO STATE PRISON ON SEXUAL ASSAULT ON A CHILD,
ON FEBRUARY 22, 1982, |
FOR PAROLE VIOLATION.
WAS RETURNED TO COLORADO STATE PRISON
WAS JAILED On'^MAY 17 , 1982 , IN
COLORADO AND ABSCONDED FROM THAT JURISDICTION ON JUNE 24, 1982.
CONTACT WITH AUTHORITIES AT DALLAS COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE,
DALLAS, TEXAS, AND COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF PAROLE AND PROBATION HAS
DETERMINED THAT THERE ARE OUTSTANDING FELONY WARRANTS FOrI
IN TEXAS FOR INDECENCY WITH A CHILD AND IN COLORADO FOR PAROLE VIOLATIOi
APPROPRIATE DETAINERS ARE BEING FORWARDED TO VERMONT STATE POLICE
m *
AL I45B-697, PAGE EIGHT, UNCLAS
REGARDING THESE ' CHARGES.
1aPP EARED IN VERMONT DISTRICT COURT ON JANUARY 3, 1.982 ,
REGARDING THESE FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE WARRANTS. PERTAINING TO THESE
■ r' '
CHARGES IN NEW JERSEY, COLORADO AND TEXAS AND BAIL WAS SET IN THE
AMOUNT OF twenty-five THOUSAND DOLLARS RELATIVE TO EACH CHARGE,
IhAS BEEN ASSIGNED A PUBLIC DEFENDER AND IT APPEARS THAT HE .
WILL WAIVE EXTRADITION ON THESE CHARGES.
ON THE MORNING OF DECEMBER 31, 1982, | [GAVE WRITTEN
CONSENT TO BUREAU AGENTS, VERMONT STATE POLICE AND HARDWICK, VERMONT
POLICE TO SEARCH HIS RESIDENCE. RECOVERED FROM THE AREA WHERE|^^^^
A^D| [SLEPT WERE SEVERAL ITEMS TO INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: SEVERAL
NAMBLA PERIODICALS; FIVE POLOROID PICTURES OF I |AND| |; TWO
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MAGAZINES ENTITLED "CHICKEN PICKINS" A,ND "JOY BOYS" WHICH SHOW
VARIOUS COLORED SCENES INVOLVING NUDE MALE MINORS; COPIES OF VARIOUS
BIRTH CERTIFICATES IN VARIOUS NAMES AND IN BLANK, AND VARIOUS COPIES
OF DRIVER’S LICENSES AND MOTOR VEHICLE REGISTRATIONS.
IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT THERE WERE VARIOUS ITEMS OF IDENTIFICATION
IN THE NAME OF | [FOUND ON| ' jPERSON AT THE TIME .
OF HIS. ARREST.
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AL I45B-697, PAGE NINE, UNCLAS
IT, SHOULD BE FURTHER NOTED THAT VERMONT STATE POLICE,
I, ST. JOHNSBURY, VERMONT, HAS BEEN IN TELEPHONIC CONTACT. .
I MOTHER I Ml
WITH
[
]KAS RELATED THAT HER SON LEGALLY CHAJX3 ED HIS NAME
SHE RELATED THAT
APPROXIMATELY TWO YEARS AGO TO
her SON’S DATE OF BIRTH IS
1
RL A5.ETTJ3E-/-.fB,,I.BTH ,
^
ID, HIS SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBIP^IS
ALBANY DIVISION WILL FURJfISH NEWARK WITH A COMPLETE INVENTORY' OF
IfEMS RECOVERED AT
PERSON IN AN
IRESIDENCE AND ON
AIRTEL WHICH FOLLOWS.
ALBANY DIVISION AT CHICHESTER, NEW YORK - WILL INTERVIEW
IrEBARDING any information he may POSSESS CONCERNING THE
~ I. by
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SEXUAL exploitation OF HIS BROTHER
(PHONETIC) OF
(NAB LA MEMBER) DURING THE SUMMER OF
1982.
ADDITIONAL POSSIBLE LEADS IN NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY ARE BEING
LEFT TO THE DISCRETION OF NEW YORK AND NEWARK.
INVESTIGATION CONTINUING IN VERMONT.
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TITLE marked "CHANGED" TO DELETE FUGITIVE STATUS RE
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PAGE TWO NEWARK' 145B- 15 11 UiMCLAS
RE-; ALBANY TELETYPE TO BUREAU, JANUARY 4 , 1985^
FOR the INFORMATION OF BUREAU AND RECEIVING OFFICES, . THE
FOLLOWING IS A' COMPREHENSIVE SUMMARY OF THE INVESTIGATION RE VICTIM
lAND THE RELATED ACTIVITIES OF NAmBLA AS DEVELOPED BY NEWARK AND
related OFFICES:
ON NOVEMBEi^ - 29, 1982 ,
SUBJECT
, VOLUNTARILY ACCOMPANIED
7 AGE d. FROM HIS home IN[
[
^TO NEW YORK CITYf^^ THESE PERSONS WE«E JOINED BY
|, A KNOWN "CHICKEN" OF NAMBLA, AGE| |, FROM
I I. AT THIS POINT THESE PERSONS DROVE FROM NEW YORK CITY TO WAREHAM,
MASSACHUSETTS, IN A VEHiaE RENTED BY A KNOWN NAMBLA MEMBER IDENTIFIED
AS
»
]aND COMPANY UPON A
THE SUMMER-
HOME OFI
WERE
, WHITE .MALE,
]PAR£NTS. PRESENT AT THIS SAME ADDRESS
AGE O FROM
J. AND
(PH) ,
AKA
], AGEQ, A WARD OF NEW YORK STATE. HIS CORRECT
FIRST NAME MAY BE
AT THIS SAME TIME, THE JERSEY CITY, NJPD HAD RECEIVED A MISSING
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PAGE THREE NEWARK 145 B- 15 11
CHILD REPORT RE
REFERENCE A KIDNAPPING ATTEMPT AGAINST
OT HER
UNCLAS
THEY HAD ALSO RECEIVED INFORMATION
YOUNGER
KIDNAPPER AS
DOB
I, AGEQ THE REPORT FURTHER IDENTIFIED THE POSSIBLE
HAS SINCE BEEN IDENTIFIED AS
I
AS A RESULT THE JERSEY CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT IN . CONJU NCTION
WITH THE WAREHAM, MASS. PD OBTAINED A SEARCH WARRANT AND ON
DECEMBER- 5, 1982, EXECUTED SAME ON| |R£SIDENCE.
ARRESTED AT THIS TIME WEREF
AND
AND
.THE RETURN OF
WERE DETAINED PENDING IDENTIFICATION OF
4
ITO
AND
PRIOR TO THE EXECUTION OF THE SEARCH WARRANT IN, WAREHAM,
“I, AND
IZ3
HAD LEFT THE LODGING FOR THE BOSTON AREA.
PRIOR TO LEAVING THE WAREHAM RESIDENCE, A CALL HAD BEEN RECEIVED
from!
INDICATING HE WAS AWARE THAT THE JCPD WERE LOOKING
FOR HIM AND HIS DESIRE TO BE PICKED UP AT THE BUS STATION IN
BUZZARD’S BAY, MASS. |ANP| [SPENT
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THE FOLLOING TWO NIGHTS, DECEMBER. 1 AND 2, 1982, IN BOSTON AREA MOTELS
THEY ARE IDENTIFIED AS BEING THE SWISS CHALET AND' THE QUINCY BAY INN.
RAGE FOUR i€WARK 1453*1311 UNCLAS
DURING THE TIME THEY WERE IN BOSTON THEY MADE CONTACT WITH
1, A WHITE MALE, BELIEVED ASSOCIATED WITH AN ORG ANIZANT ION
KNOWN AS BAGLEY (PH). BA6LEY IS BELIEVED TO BE A GROUP OF
I®IVIDUALS INVOLVED IN HARBORING AND ASSISTING RUN-AWAY GAY YOUTHS..
|v;AS ACCOMPANIED BY A YEAR OLD WHITE MALE RUNAWAY IDENTIFIED
Ireturned TO
OMY AS
LNU. ON DECEMBER 3 , 1982 ,
m JERSEY. HE HAD RECEIVED MONEY FOR HIS RETURN FROM
|. NO INFORMATION TO DATE AS TO
OF
INVOLVEMENT
WITH NAMBLA.
ON DECSMBEB 5, 1982 , ARRANGEMENTS WERE MADE THROUGH
AT THE GLAD DAY BOOK STORE, BOSTON, MASS., TO TRANSPORT
TO VERMONT. THEY WERE DRIVEN TO VEKmONT LATE
, AND
DECEMBEi^ 3 , 1982 , BY
(PH) IN A 1975 BLUE VOLVO
WAGON BEARING MASS. PLATES.
DURING THE PERIOD OF DECEMBER 4 , 1982 , THROUGH DECEMBER 50,
1982 ,
AKA'
, AND
I, RESIDED WITH
, AGE I I, I
IS A PHIOR
ACQUAINTANCE 0F[
ACCORDING TO BOTH
AND
WITH NO KNOWN NAMBLA AFFILIATION,
I, SEXUAL ACTIVITIES SUCH AS
• •
PAGE FIVE NEWARK 14 5 B- 1 5U UNCLAS .
FOfDLING, MASTURNATION AND FELLATIO TOOK PLACE ON A DAILY BASIS. AS •
A RESULT OF INTENSE MEDIA COVERAGE ON THe' DISAPPEARANCE OFI L
I PL A CEP THE CHILD ON A BUS FOR | |. HE WAS LATER
DISCOVERED AT THE PORT AUTHORITY IN NEW YORK WHEN HE QUESTIONED AN
information officer WITH RESPECT TO LOCATING A BUS THAT WOULD TAKE
HIM FROM NEW YORK TO| |. ADDITIONALLY.! ~|lNDI CATES
HE HAD PLACED A CALL TOj L IDENTIFIED AS NAMBLA MEMBER AND
HAD BEEN INFORMED OF INTENSIVE POLICE ACTIVITY IN AN ATTEMPT TO
LOCATE] |AND| |.
IT SHOULD BE NOTED THE EXTENSIVE POLICE ACTIVITY REFERRED TO BY
, WAS A DIRECT RESULT OF THE WAREHAM RAID, FEDERAL SEARCHES OF ^6
THREE NAMBLA RESIDENCES IN NEW YORK CITY ON DECEMBER IS, 1982 , AND
THE LOCATION IN WAREHAM OF A PHOTOGRAPH WHICH BEARS A STRIKING
RESEMBLANCE TO A MISSING^DYEAR OLD,] ~|WAS ABDUCTED
OFF THE STREETS OF] jlNf ~|^^HEN.HE WAS] •
YEARS CLD. ALSO RECOVERED IN THE WAREHAM SEARCH WERE VOLUMINOUS
!€GATIVES AND PHOTOGRAPHS, CURRENTLY BEING DEVELOPED, WHICH ARE OF
YOUNG UNIDENTIFIED MALES. EXTENSIVE NAMBLA LITERATURE. AND BOOKS ■ , .
DEPICTING MEN AND BOYS IN VARIOUS SEXUAL' ACTIVITY WAS ALSO RECOVERED
PAGE SIX NEWARK 145B-15 11 UNCLAS
IN THE WAREHAM RAID.
I COOPERATED WITH LOCAL AUTHORITIES IN MASS., AND
HIS INFORMATION WAS UTILIZED TO OBTAIN THREE FEDERAL SEARCH WARRANTS
Fffl LOCATIONS IN MANHATTAN, NY, KNOWN TO BE OCCUPIED BY IDENTIFIED
NAMBLA members.
. ONE OF THE RESIDENCES AT | |,
APPEARED TO BE THE HEADQUARTERS FOR THE NAMBLA LEGAL DEFENSE
COMMITTEE, THIS APARTMENT IS OCCUPIED BY| L IDENTIFIED
IN THE "GAY CaMMUNITY NEWS" AS A SPOKESMAN FOR NAMBLA. ALSO . ^6
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RECOVEi'v-ED WAS A LARGE AMOUNT. OF NAMBLA RELATED MATERIAL WHICH IS
CURRENTLY BEING REVIEWED BY BROOKLYN/GUEE NS. | |I3 A
KNOW N £ M PL 0 YEE OF | ~|»
FOR THE INFORMATION OF THE BUREAU, THE ■ PHOTOGRAPH QFl
LOOK-A-LIKE HAS BEEN IDEOTIFIED BY THE NEW YORK OFFICE AS COMING FROM
A 1968 CALENDAR PUBLISHED BY A NOW DEFUNCT FIFTH AVE. PUBLISING
COMPANY. IT IS NOTED A NAMBLA SPOKESMAN,] |> IN A NAMBLA
i\EW3 CONFERENCE IN MANHATTAN ON DECEMBER 28TH, 1982, ACCUSED THE ■
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TO DIRECTOR (PRIORI I Y)
ALBANY (PRIORITY)
BOSTON (PRIORITY)
BALTIMORE (PRIORITY)
BROOKLYN- QUEENS (PRIORITY)
I£W ROCHELLE (PRIORITY)
NYO (PRIORITY)
PITTSBURGH (PRIORITY)
PHILADELPHIA (PRIORITY)
E
UNCLA3 ' s
SECT ION TWO OF TWO
"C HA N6ED" I h VI CT I M ; [
LOVE ASSOCIATION (NAMBLA ITOM- SEKU
00: NEWARK
|, aka| I
^ NORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDHEN;
• •
PAGE SEVEN NEWARK 145B-15 11 UNCLAS
FBI AND THE NEW YORK CITY POLICE OF ORCHESTRATING AN ATTACK ON
mMBLA BY INFERRING NAMBLA WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR I IaBDUCTIQN.
TO DATE, NO POSITIVE INFORMATION CONCERNING! |WHEHEAB0UTS HAS
EEN DEVELOPED BY NEWARK.
AS SET FORTH IN REFERENCE TELETYPET ~|aND|
IWERE ARRESTED BY FBI AND VERMONT STATE POLICE AT
(KEENSBORO BEND, VERMONT. THEY HAVE BOTH BEEN RETURNED TO NEW JERSEY
AND ARE COOPERATING IN THIS INVESTIGATION, j IhAS BEEN .
DENT IFIED' AS A PERSON WANTED FOR SEX OFFENSES WITH CHILDREN IN
. ■ , ■ -be
DALLAS, TEXAS, AND ASPEN COLORADO.
jCSUPRA ABOVE) IS IN THE CUSTODY OF MONMOUTH
COUNTY, NJ JUVENILE AUTHORITIES AND IS PROVIDING INFORMATION IN THIS
INVESTIGATION. ‘ .
CAPTIONED INVESTIGATION HAS CATAPULTED NAMBLA AND ITS ACTIVITIES
INTO NAT 10, N>W IDE ATTENTION. AS A RESULT INFORMATION CONCERNING
MBLA AND ITS VICTIMS HAVE BEE N RECEI VED ' BY NEWARK FROM A VARIETY
OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AND CITIZEN SOURCES. IT IS APPARENT THAT THE
INVESTIGATION IN THIS. MATTER WITH RESPECT TO ITS NATIONAL AND
INTERNATIONAL RAf'ilFICAT IONS WOULD BEST BE COORDINATED BY THE FBI.
THE FBI IS BEST SUITED, TO BE THE LEAD AGENCY IN THIS INVESTIGATION
DUE TO NAMBLA MEMBERS PROPENSITY FOR INTER-STATE TRAVEL WITH THE
BOY/ViCriMS LEADING TO MULTI-JURISDICTIONAL OFFENSES BEING COMMITED
AND A VARIETY OF STATE LAWS BEING VIOLATED. PROSECUTION UNDER THE
a,ANK£T OF FEDERAL STATUTES WOULD APPEAR TO BE FAR MORE PRODUCTIVE
IN BRINGING THESE MATTERS UNDER MORE RAPID CONTROL. THE ISSUE
OF SEXUALLY EXPLOITED CHILDREN IS AN ISSUE OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE.
the FBI IS PARTICULARLY SUITED TO VIGOROUSLY PURSUE P£f<SONS
RESPONSIBLE.
NAMBLA, BY ITS OWN ADMISSION, ADVOCATES CONSENSUAL SEX BETWEEN
ADULTS AND CHILDREN. THEY HAVE OPENLY LOBBIED FOR CHANGES IN'
legislation on A STATE AND FEDERAL LEVEL IN OPPOSITION TO "AGE OF
eONSEI^” LAWS. THEIR MEMBERSHIP IS BELIEVED TO BE APPROXIMATELY
2,000 NATIONWIDE WITH AN UNKNOWN NUMBER OF SYMPATHIZERS. THEY
CLAIM TO BE I OTER NAT lONAL IN SCOPE AND HAVE ACIVELY AIDED AND
ABETTED
PAGE NIKE ■ NEWARK 145b4||iI UNCLAS • 0
CONVICTED CHILD SEX OFFENDERS UNDER THE GUISE OF CONCERN FOR RUNAWAY
YOUTHS. THEY HAVE IN FACT USED THESE YOUNG PEOPLE FOR THEIR OWN
a:XUAL GRATIFICATION.
AS PREVIOUSLY NOTED I UND| |HAV£
ALL BEEN I [\IT ERVIEWED AND HAVE BEEN COOPERATIVE, INITIAL DEBRIEFINGS
HAVE PROVIDED VALUABLE INFORMATION IN DEVELOPING THE MODUS OPERANDI
OF NAMBLA, SAFE-HOUSES WHERE RUNAWAY YOUTHS HAVE BEEN SECRETED AND
IDENTIFICATION OF SATELLITE SUPPORT GROUPS. | ~|hAS INDICATED
HE CAN PROVIDE THE IDENTITY OF THIRTY TO FORTY RUNAWAY YOUTHS
[nationwide, AS WELL AS NAMBLA’ S SOURCE OF FUNDING.
I HAS INDICATED- NAmBLA IS VERY ACTIVE IN A PRISONER.
. • ■ -bo
eCRRESPONDENCE PROGRAM NATIONWIDE, DIRECTED AT GAY-PEDOPHILE INMATES.
AS A RESULT OF THE INCARCERATTION QF|~ IAND[ |, A
SOPHISTICATED CALL FORWARDING SYSTEM WHEREBY CONVICTED INMATES
ATTEMPT TO REACH RECENTLY ARRESTED INMATES AND PROVIDE LEGAL ADVICE
AND MORAL SUPPfflT TO THEM, HAS BEE N U NCOVEHED.
DEBRIEFINGS TO DATE, ALTHOUGH THOROUGH, HAVE BEEN LIMITED TO
THE PRESENT INFORMATION NOW AVAILABLE TO NEWARK.
IN ORDER TO TAP ALL OF THE KNOWLEDGE HELD BY| "|, ET AL,
UNCLAS
PAGE TEN NEWARK 145B-15 11
INFORMATION FROM AVAIBLE LAW ENFORCEMENT SOURCES CONCERNING
MBLA SHOULD BE POOLED. ^ , /•
BASED UPON THE ABOVE INFORMATION, BUREAU AUTHORITY IS R^rtJTSTED.''
FOR RECEIVING OFFICES TO TRAVLE TO NEWARK, NJ TO ATTEND A CON5;OENCE
WS M
RELAT ING TO
MATTER ON THURSDAY, JANUARY 13,1983, AT
THE CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD IN THE NEWARK OFFICE AND REQUESTED
THAT REPRESENTATIVES FROM ^AL^Y, BOSTON, BR OOKLYN^EE NS
[£W YORK, ATTEND. THESE REPRESENTATIVES SHOULD BE FAMILIAR WITH
NAMBL^ND SHOULD BE ACCOMPANIED BY ANY FEDERAL OR LOCAL LAW ENFORCE-
MENT OFFICALS IN THEIR AREA WHO MIGHT BE ABLE TO‘pROVIDE SPECIFIC
INFORMATION CONCERNING SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN BY NAMBLA.I.
THIS MATTER HAS BEEN DISCUSSED WITH THE USA'S OFFICE, NEWARK
THEY HAVE INDICATED A DISIRE TO PROSECUTE THIS MATTER IF SPECIFIC
FACTS CAN BE DEVELOPED WHICH WOULD INDICATE A MONETARY GAIN BY NAMBLA
MEMBERS OR THE VICTIM’S PARENTS. NEWARK HAS IDENTITED NUMEROUS
YOUNG VICTIMS OF NAMBLA RESIDING WITHIN THE NEWARK DIVISION WHO HAVE
EEN VICTIMIZED IN NEW JERSEY AND IN OTHER STATES. THE BALTIMORE
AND PHILADELPHIA OFFICES ARE BEING PROVIDED INFORMATION RELATING TO
fWMBLA IN VIEW OF CONVENTIONS HELD BY NAMBLA IN THOSE CITIES DURING
1979 AND 1982 RESPECTIVELY. BALTIMORE AND PHILADELPHIA ARE REQUESTED
TO PROVIDE i€WARK WITH ANY BACKGROUND
INFORMATION RELATING TO ANY NAMBLA, INVESTIGATION CONDUCTED THERE. '
PITTSBURGH IS ADVISED THAT INTERVIEW WITH SUBJECT | IhAS
DEVELOPED I NFORMAT ION T HAT A FILM ®EW F«OM THE PITTSBURGH AREA
HAS FILMED WITH L6MM PHOTOGRAPHY EQUIPMENT, VICTIM’S OF NAMBLA
DURING CHRISTMAS OF L9S0, AT ThE RESIDENCE QF| |IN
I. -PITTSBURGH IS REQUESTED TO SEARCH INDICES RE
iW<lBLA AND/OR CHILD PORNOGRAPHY MATTERS IN AN EFFORT TO FURTHER
DENT I FY THIS FILM CREW.
UPON. RECEIPT OF BUREAU- APPROVAL TO ATTEND THIS CONFERENCE,
be
INVITED OFFICES ARE REQUESTED TO SUTEL IDENTITY OF INDIVIDUALS WHO hlc
WILL ATTEND AND ANY LODGING REQUIREMENTS THAT WILL BE NECESSARY.
EACH INVITED OFFICE SHOULD BE PREPARED TO GIVE DETAILED PRESENT AT ION
CONCERNING KNOWN NAMBLA MEMBERS OR VICTIMS WITHIN THE TERRITORIES
m THEIR ACTIVITIES. ADDITIONALLY, OFFICES ATTENDING SHOULD
KING SUFFICIENT PHOTOGRAPHS OF ANY KNOWN NAMBLA MEMBERS, ASSOCIATES
(K VICTIMS AS WELL AS ALL DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THIS GROUP.
Yi va
RECEIVING OFFICES WHICH HAVE NOT BEEN INVITED Am WHO BELEIVE
THEY CAN FURNISH POSITIVE AND PRODUCTIVE I NFOR MATIOn/aRE REQUESTED
TO SEPARATELY REQUEST BUREAU AUTHORITY TO ATTEND THE CONFERENCE. '
BI .
#
FD-515 (Re^M-2-15-80)
ACCOMSSLISHMENT REPORT
(Submit within 30 days from date of accomplishment)
12/28/82
DfRECTOR, FBI
Bureau File Number
145B-1511
Field Office File Number
3484
Squad or RA Number
lnvo8tigs?IVa Assistance or Techniques Used ^
Were any of the investigative assistance or techniques listed below used in connection with accomplishment
being claimed? [3 No Q Yes - If Yes, rate each used as follows:
1 = Used, but did not help
2 = Helped, but only minimally
3 E= Helped, substantially
4 Absolutely essential
ORTH AMERICAN MAN /BOY LOVE
AS SOCXATXQin^NAMBI^^ SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN .
00: NEWARK
1 . Acctg Tech Rating
Assistance
6. ELSUR- Rating
Title III
1 1 . Lab Div Rating
16. Survetl. Rating
Sqd Asst
2. Aircraft
Assistance
7. Hypnosis
Assistance
12. Pen
Registers
17. SWAT Team
Action
3. Computer
Assistance
8. IdentDiv
Assistance
13. Photographic
Coverage
18. Telephone Toll
Records
4. Consensual
Monitoring
9. Informant
Information
14. Polygraph
Assistance
19. Undercover
Operation
5. ELSUR-
FISC
1 0. Lab Div
Exams
15. Show Money
Usage
20. Visual Invest -
Analysis (VIA)
A. Preliminary Judicial Process
(Number of subjects)
B. Arrests, Locates & Summonses
(Number of subjects)
FBI Arrests -
FBI Locates *
. Criminal Summons
Number of Subjects of FBI Arrests Who Physically Resisted _
Number of Subjects of FBI Arrests Who Were Armed
^ C. Release of Hostages: (Number of Hostages Released)
Informations 1 Indictrfients
1
Subjec
Priority (See Reverse) |'
A
B
. C
D. Recoveries, Restitutions, Court Ordered Forfeitures or Potential Economic Loss Prevented (PELP)
Property or
PELP Type
1 Code •
Hostages Held By Terrorists _
F. Final Judicial Process:
Subject 1 • Name -
All other Hostage Situations _
□
Pretrial
Diversion
□
Dismissal
□
Acquittal
' Convictions -
Enter conviction and qj
sentence data in space at
right. If more than four —
sections are involved, limit to □
the four most relevant.
I I Felony
|~] Misde-
meanor
□ Trial
Subject 2 - Name •
mi Pretrial
Diversion
O Dismissal
m Acquittal
Subject 3 - Name -
□
Pretrial
Diversion
□
Dismissal
□
Acquittal
-Convictions- J
Enter conviction and q Misde
sentence data in space at meanc
right. If more than four
sections are involved, limit to m Plea
the four most relevant.
□ Trial
- Convictions -
Enter conviction and
sentence data in space at
right. If more than four
sections are involved, limit to
the four most relevant.
□
Felony
□
Misde-
meanor
□
Plea
□
Trial
Court Ordered Forfeitures
$
Potential Economic
Loss Prevented
E. Civil Matters
Amount of Suit
Settlement or Award
Government Defendant
G(^ernml^fPjafhtiff
Enter AFA Payment Here
(Use two letter state abbreviations per U.S. Post Office Guide. For Example - The Northern District of Texas as ND TX;
District of Maine as ME in the state field only.)
Subject's Description Code * -
1 Conviction
In-Jail Term
Suspended
Probation |
Title
Section
Counts
Yrs
Mos
Yrs
Mos
Yrs
Mos
Subject’s Description Code
1 Conviction
In-Jall Term
Suspended
Probation j
Title
Section
Counts
Yrs
Mos
Yrs
Mos
Yrs
Mos
Subject’s Description Code * -
1 Conviction |
In-Jall Term |
Title
Section
Counts
Yrs
Mos
1 Probation
Yrs
Mos
Fine
/ /
f/( I
))
$(/ *1
I Attach additional forms If reporting final judicial process on more ^ban three subjects. j
Remarks^;^ i\ /
(^Bureau M ^
^^Newark ( l-Sub^ta-n%ive File)
(1-Statistics^im I rocess Folder)
(1-SA Accompli'sl^ent Record)
, „ DJM/.dain-, l.. '-' V ,
2 - Bureau ] , • • i 1 ' \J
2 • Field Office) ( 5 U ^ ^ CA
• See codes on reverse.iide^^ubject description codesiin'Seotion F are required only when reporting a conviction.
S)§iAR3( lyBa
1 2 JAN 1? 1983
Property Type Codes *
Code
No Description
1 Cash {U.S. and foreign currency)
2 Stock, Bonds or Negotiable Instruments (checks, travelers checks,
money orders, certificates of deposit, etc)
3 General Retail Merchandise (clothing, food, liquor, cigarettes, TVs, etc)
4 Vehicles (autos, trucks, tractors, trailers, campers, motorcycles, etc)
5 Heavy Machinery & Equipment (heavy equipment, computers, etc)
6 Bulk Materials (grain, fuel, raw materials, metals, wire, etc)
7 Jewelry (including unset precious and semiprecious stones)
8 Precious Metals (gold, silver, silverware, platinum, etc)
9 Art, Antiques or Rare Collections
1 0 Dangerous Drugs
1 1 Weapons or Explosives
1 2 Businesses or Assets Forfeited
20 All Other Recoveries (not falling in any category above)
3 62-/1 /g-3 SK.
Potential Economic Loss Prevented (PELP) Type Codes *
Code
No Description
21 Blank Negotiable Instruments or Tickets
22 Counterfeit Stocks, Bonds, Currency or Negotiable Instruments
23 Counterfeit or Pirated Sound Recordings or Motion Pictures
24 Bank Theft Scheme Aborted
25 Ransom, Extortion or Bribe Demand Aborted
26 Theft From, or Fraud Against, Government Scheme Aborted
27 Commercial or Industrial Theft Scheme Aborted
30 All Other Potential Economic Loss Prevented (not falling In any
category above)
*The case file must contain an explanation of the computation of the recovery value or loss prevented. An explanation airtel must accompany this
report if the recovery is $1 million or more, or if the PELP is $5 million or more.
Subject Description Codes *
- Enter Description Code Only When Reporting a Conviction •
Organized Crime Subjects:
1 A Boss, Underboss or Consigliere
1 B Capodecina or Soldier
1 C Possible LCN Member or Associate
1 D OC Subject Other Than LCN
Known Criminals (Other Than OC Members):
2A Top Ten or 1.0. Fugitive
2B Top Thief
2C Top Con Man
Foreign Nationals:
3A Legal Alien
3B Illegal Alien
3C Foreign Official Without Diplomatic Immunity
3D U.N. Employee Without Diplomatic Immunity
3E Foreign Students
3F All Others
Terrorists:
4 A Known Member of a Terrorist Organization
4B Possible Terrorist Member or Sympathizer
*lf a subject can be classified in more than one of the categories,
Union Members:
5 A International or National Officer
5B Local Officer
5C Union Employee
Government Official Or Employees:
6A Federal • Elected Official
6B Federal * Nonelected Executive Level
6C Federal - All Other
6D State - Elected Official
6E State - Nonelected Executive Level
6F State - All Other
6G Local - Elected Official
6H Local - Nonelected Executive Level
6J Local - All Other
Bank Officers Or Employees:
7 A Bank Officer
7B Bank Employee
All Others:
8 A All Other Subjects (not fitting above categories)
the most appropriate in the circumstance.
Instructions
Subject Priorities for FBI Arrest or Locates:
A - Subject wanted for crimes of violence (i.e. murder, manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault) or convicted of such crimes in
the past five years.
B - Subjects wanted for crimes involving the loss or destruction of property valued in excess of $25,000 or convicted of such crimes in the past
five years.
C - All others
Claiming Convictions Other Than Federal:
It is permissible to claim a local (state, county or local) conviction if the FBI’s investigation significantly contributed to the successful local
prosecution. A succinct narrative setting forth the basis for claiming a local conviction must accompany this report. When claiming a conviction
other than Federal, enter the word "LOCAL" in the “Conviction-Section" block, disregard the number of conviction counts, but enter the sentence
in the appropriate blocks. Enter “LF" in the “In-Jail" block for all life sentences and “CP” for all capital punishment sentences.
Reporting Convictions:
Convictions should not be reported until the sentence has been issued. There are two exceptions to this rule. The conviction information can be
submitted by itself if:
1 . The subject becomes a fugitive after conviction but prior to sentencing.
2. The subject dies after conviction but prior to sentencing.
An explanation is required in the Remarks section for either of the above exceptions.
Rule 20 Situations:
The field office that obtained the process (normally the office of origin) Is the office that should claim the conviction, not the office where th^
subject enters the plea in cases involving Rule 20 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedures. »
Investigative Assistance or Techniques (lA/T s) Used:
•Since more than one lA/T could have contributed to the accomplishment, each lA/T must be rated.
-The lA/T used must be rated each time an accomplishment is claimed. (For example - if informant information was the basis for a compleynt, an
arrest, a recovery and a conviction and^^parate FD-51 5s are submitted for each of the aforem|^^ed accomplishments, the “Informant
Information” block must be rated on eJBfD-515 even if it was the same information that contribH^to all the accomplishments.)
NK 145B-1511
On December 28, 1982, UFAP complaint was filed
before U.S. Magistrate, Robert E. Cowen . Newark . N.J., for
I and warrant issued for| ~|arrest. UFAP
complaint filed for violation of local kidnapping laws.
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EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN,. .•00; NEWARK
RENKTEL TO DIRECTOR JANUARY 8, ^983.
SAC, BOSTON, CONCURS WITH TRAVEL BY SAS
I I, AND
1/
I, TO NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, FOR NAMBLA
~|and|
983, V^ ^M£AS.
CONFERENCE ON JANUARY 13, 1983. SAS
ARRIVE NEWARK EVENING OF JANUARY 12,
FOR information OF NEWARK, ALs'o 'ATTEND
arriving NEWARK ON JANUARY 13, 1983, WILL BE
WILL
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COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE, AND DETECTIVE
WAREHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, POLICE DEPARTMENT.
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00: NK
RE; ffiWARK TELETYPE TO BUREAU L2/28/^
NEWARK TELETYPPE TO ALBANY L2/23/82. •
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PAGE TWO NEWARK (1458-151 I) UNCLAS
SAC ALBANY 12/30/82.
NEWARK TELCAL ASAC MCLANAHAN TO EBIHQ NIGHT
SUPERVISOR, CID 12/30/82.
TITLE, MARKED "CHANGED" TO REFLECT ADDITIONAL ALIAS
, 23 hS/ ^
OF , NAME SUBJECT USED WHILE EMPLOYED
FOR INFORMATION OF RECEIVING OFFICES VICTIM
|LOCATED LATE AFTERNOON 12/30/82#PORT AUTHORITY
BUS TERMINAL IN NYC AS RESULT OF . INQUIRY BY PORT AUTHORITY
POLICE.
ADMITTED IDENTITY AND HIS DESIRE TO RETURN
TO
MOTORIZED AUTHORIZATION TO RELEASE[
OBTAINED FROM
HIS FATHER. MEMBER'S OF MONMOUTH COUNTY PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE,
PATROLMAN, HIGHLANDS, NJPD AND FBI ON SCENE AND HAVE POSI-
IanD are RETURNING HIM TO MONMOUTH
TIVELY IDENTIFIED
COUNTY N.J.
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BRIEF INTERVIEW OF VICTIM REFLECTS THAT HE DEPARTED,
MONTPELIER, VER.M£J1JUAT L:45 A.M. , DECEMBER 30 VIA VERMONT
transit line POSSIBLE AFFILIATE OF GREYHOUND. THIS BUS ARRIVED
PAGE THREE (145B-15 11) UNCLAS
2:55 A.M, WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, VERMONT. BUS DEPARTED THIS
LOCATION 6;00 A.M. ENROUTE TO NYC WITH STOP OVER AT SPRRING-
FIELD, MASS. BUS ARRIVED 1;50 PM NYC. VICTIM CLAIMS HE WAS
— ■ I \tm II TiijWin
TRANSPORTED IN TAN PICK UP TRUCK WITH GREEN BOX ON REAR TO
MONTPELIER BUS TERMINAL. VICTIM RECALLED TRIIP WAS FAIRLY LONG.
AS HE SLEPT PART OF THE WAY. HE DESCRIBED THE HOUSE WHERE HE .
STAYED AS BEING OiNE STORY WOOD FRAMED ROUSE, 4 ROOMS, LOCAATED
m A HILL WITH GRAVEL ROAD. AREA AROUND HOUSE LOOKS LIKE JUUNK
YARD WITH APPROX. 7 JUNK CARS.
ApCORDING T0| |, SUBJECT I I A! PNG pTH ASSOCIATE
B. approx) T
17 GREY HAAIR, GLASSES,
TEAVY BUILD, HAD TRANSPORTED HIM TO M ONT PELIERR T VERMONT BUS
B. APPR^
(PH) DESCRIBED AS W./J^'AGrr
STATION. VICTIM RECAALLED
RESIDENCE, PREVIOUSLY DES-
CRRIBED, IS LOCATED^ APPROX. ONE MILE , ON SAME ROAD AS THE RESI-
V
(PH). IT. IS NOTED THAT VICTIM STATED'
DEN'CE OF
THAT
|WAS REEPORTEDLY KILLEED 4 DAYS AGO IN AN AUTOMOBILE
ACCIDEENT WHILE DRIVING A VOLKSWAGEN RABBIT.
ACCORDING TO VICTIM,
IS USING AN ALIAS OF
I I FOR IDENTIFICATION PURPOSES AND USING[
PCR ANY PURCHASES.
]CREDIT. CARDS
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VICTIM STATED |
]HAS
IS FURTHER DESCRRIBED AS W/M DOB-f
5’ ir, 160 LBS., BROWN HAIR Ai® EYES, MOUSTACHE, SS#[
] SUSPECTED OF BEING MEMBER
OF ORGANIZATION IDENTIFIED AS NORTH AMERICAN MAN BOY LOVE
ASSOCIATION (NAMBLA).
ON 12/4/82
CHARGGED BY MONMOUTH COUNTY PROSECU-
TORS OFFICE WITH THE CRIME OF KIIDNAPPING, IN VIOLATION OF
N.J. STATE CODE 2Cj15-1(B). IT IS CHARGED THAT ON OR ABOUT
W APPRI
NOVEMBER 2S, 1982,,
TRANSPORTED
_JYRS
CLD FROM
TO MASSACHUSETTES WITHOUT CONSENT
OF HIS PARENT OR GUARDIAN. FEDDERAL WARRANT-UNLAWFUL FLI IGHT
TO AVOID PROSECUTION (UFAP) ISSUED BY MAGISTRATE
ROBERT COWEN, i'£WARK, N.J. AUTHORIZED FEDDERAL COMPLAINT
EASED ON REQUEST FOR FBI ASSISTANCE BY MONMOUTH COUNTY, N.J.
FR OSE CUT OR , FR EE HOLD , N. J .
ON 12/30/82 A KNOWN NAMBLA ” CHICREJ)!?
VISED JERSEY CITY,' J>_J,. POLICE DEPT. THAT
ATE
]ad-
HAS ASSOCI-
(LNU) ALSO BELLIEVED TO BE A NAMBLA MEMBER WHO RESIDES
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IN VERMONT. I l(LNU) REPORTEDLY HAS TWO DODGE COLT CARS i
QN PROPERTY AND| 1 COULD HAVE ACCESS TO THESE VEHICLES.
STRONG POSSIBILITY EXISTS THAT] |(LNU) IS IDENT TOl I
IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE, ON 12/50/82 F I IN-
VESTIGATOR, ASSIGNED NASSAU COUNTY DA’S OFFICE ADVISED THAT
SHE HAS MAINTAINED CONTACT WITHi ~|PAR£NTS. INVESTIGATOR
I ST AT ED that I |m OTHER PROVIIDED THE FOLLOWING AD-
DRESS AS A POSSIBLE LOCATION OR CONTACT FOR SUBJECT: ' be
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ACCORDING TO I NVESTIGATOR | |HAS REPORTEDLY
TAKEN CHILDREN TO BURLINGTON, VT. AREA IN THE PAST. IT SHOULD
BE NOTED THATl |IS REPORTEDLY A NAMBLA MEMBER. HE IS
CURRENTLY IN LOCAL CUSTODY IN WAREHAM ,^MASS. FOOR SEX RELATED
VIOLATIONS.
LEADS :ALBANY DIVISION
AT BURLINNGTON, VERMONT
PAG£ SIX ( 14 58-15 11) UNCIAS ' '
UUTILIZi;^G INFORMAT lOW PROVIDED HEREIN, AS WELL AS THAT FURNISHED
IN REFERENCED TELEPHONE CALLS, CONDUCT APPR OPIATE INVESTIGATION
TO LOCATE AND APPREHEND FUGITlVEr 1.
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Ft)LLOW IN6 AGENCIES: PLYMOUTH COUNTY, MASSaCHUSETTES DrSTRICf | ’
^attorney <1>; WAREHAM, mass EdLlCE^DEPARtMEN^
SERVICE (2); BERGEN COUNTY, NJ PROSECUTOR ^S^mCER (3^ Hfe^N
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county; ■ NJ. PROkcuf OR ’ 3 OFFICE (2) ^- JERSEY^^
(2) ;; MONMOUTH COUNTY, NJ PROSECUTOR ' S OFFICE (1) ; NASSAU COUNTY, y
PAGE TWO NK 145B-1511 UNCLaS
SELECT COMMITTEE ON CRIME (1); NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT (6);
PELHAM MANOR, NY POLICE DEPARTMENT (1)J US ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, NJ
(1); AND FBI - BOSTON (2); BROOKLYN- QUEENS (3); NEW ROCHELLE (1);
AND NEWARK (10).
AFTER BEING WELCOMED, PURPOSE OF CONFERENCE AND INTRODUCTION
OF PARTICIPANTS, FBI-BQMRA GAVE TALK ON HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND
DEVELOPMENT OF NAMBLA IN THE UNITED STATES AND ELEMENTS REQUIRED
TO ESTABLISH A federal, PROSECUTION.
NASSAU COUNTY REPRESENTATIVES GAVE SYNOPSIS OF THEIR
INVESTIGATION A® SUBSEQUENT SUCCESSFUL PROSECUTION OF SEVERAL
NAMBLA MEMBERS FOR SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN. THIS SYNOPSIS
also PROVIDED INSIGHT INTO PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED IN INVESTIGATION
and WHICH LATER REAPPEARED DURING TRIAL. PROBLEMS AROSE AND THAT
MANY OF THE VICTIM CHILDREN HAD BEEN COACHED BY NAMBLA MEMBERS
PRIOR TO BEING INTERVIEWED BY INVESTIGATORS, AND THIS COACHING
RESULTED IN A SIT UAT ION WHEREBY INVESTIGATORS WERE REQUIRED TO
CO® UCT MULTIPLE INTERVIEWS OF EACH VICTIM TO ATTEMPT TO GET THE
TR UTH. THE INTERVIEWS OF INDIVIDUAL VICTIMS HAD BEEN CONDUCTED
BY MORE THAN ONE DIFFERENT INVESTIGATOR AND RESULTED IN VAST
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discrepancies in the victims statements which were later expounded
UPON BY THE DEFENSE ATTORNEYS IN THE TRIALS. THEY EXPLAINED THAT
THE VICTIM CHILD WAS APPROACHED AND INTERVIEWED AS A NORMAL VICTIM
AND that THE MAJORITY OF CHILDREN IN THIS MATTER WERE TREATED
BETTER BY NAMBLA MEMBERS THEN THEY WERE AT HOME, AND READILY
ACCEPTED NAMBLA COACHING. ADDITIONAL PROBLEMS WERE ENCOUNTERED
WITH Parents of the victim children, in that, there were indications
that THE PARENTS HAD BEEN PAID TO KEEP THE CHILDREN FROM TESTIFYING
OR TO NOT MAKE THEM AVAILABLE TO INVESTIGATORS FOR INTERVIEW.
mSSPiU COUNTY RECOMMENDED THAT ALL INTERVIEWS OF INDIVIDUAL VICTIMS
AND WITNESSES BE CONDUCTED BY THE SAME INVESTIGATOR TO PRODUCE
POSSIBLE DISCREPANCIES IN statements.
representatives from FBI - BOSTON; PLYMOUTH COUNTY, MASS.;
BERGEN AND MONMOUTH COUNTY, NJ, AND JERSEY CITY, NJ POLICE DEPARTMENT
' GAVE BRIEF PRESENTATIONS CONCERNING INVESTIGATIONS OF NAMBLA
ACTIVITIES IN THERE AREAS.
ON COMPLETION OF PRESENTATIONS, ATTENDING GROUPS MADE AVAILABLE
L HERAT IRE AND INFORMATION RELATIVE TO NAMBLA TO AGENTS OF RED BANK,
MJ RESIDENT AGENCY FOR REPRODUCTION AND DISSEMINATION OF COMPLETE
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PACKAGE TO ALL AGENCIES WHO ATTENDED CONFERENCE. IT WAS
CONSENSUS OF OPINION FROM AGENCIES IN ATTENDANCE THAT CONFERENCE
WAS mutually beneficial TO ALL PARTIES AND HAD ESTABLISHED OPEN
AND PRODUCTIVE LINES OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN ALL PARTIES.
THIS CONFERENCE AND QUID PRO QUO DIALOGUE WITH ATTENDEES =
QRYSTaLIZED THOSE ELEMENTS NECESSARY FOR VIOLATIONS WITHIN THE
state STATUTES dealing WITH THE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN.
conversations highlighted areas OF investigation and leads to BE
COVERED IN efforts TO PROVE THE COMMERCIAL ASPECT IN THE FEDERAL
VIOLATION OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 1462, 1465-, 2421, 2422, AND 2423.
AUSA, NEWARK IS RESEARCHING WITH DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE OFFICIALS
THE PECUNIARY GAINES ASPECT OF THE FEDERAL STATUTES PREVIOUSLY
MENTIONED.
NEWARK: AT RED BANK, NJ : WILL REPRODUCE MATERIAL AND
disseminate TO all representatives who attended CONFERENCE,
ALO004 02 1 1650Z
RR HQ NK BQ
|D£ AL
m 2 1 165 0Z JAN . 83
/A FM ALBANY (145B-697) CP)
4 TO DIRECTOR, FBI (ROUTINE)
i€WARK (ROUTINE)
f BROOKLYN QUEENS (ROUTINE)
\ a
UNCLAS EFTO
:VICTIM;
I I J ij / 'y
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Assf. tHr;
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S PuUIc Affe.
Rec. I%if.
1i-<t\iOR,T.H .Aja.ER.LCAN. flAN/B
■^NAivim.A) , ITOM-SEXUAL EpCPLOIT AT 10 N OF CHILDREN,
00: [€WARK.
-ip'
RE NEWARK TELETYPE TO THE DIRECTOR DATED JANUARY 7, 1983
C-J '
PROVIDED THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IN SUPPORT OF HIS BELIEF;
fiL 145B-467, PAGE SIX, USaAS EHO
I I ALBANY NOTES IHAI| |, DOB|
I I, tfAS COIWICIED OF SEXUAL ABUSE, FIRST DEGREE, AND SEXUAL ABUSE,
SiCOB DEGREE.' APPAREMLYr |, IN CONCERT WITH A NUMBER OF
aHER INDIVIDUALS SEXUALLY ABUSED AND SODOMIZED CHILDREN AND VIDEO-
TAPED SEXUAL PERFORMANCES INVOLVING CHILDREN”.
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WHEN REl^AWDED TO THE DOWNSTATE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY,
li TCTirn Aci uTC ms’adcqt on atti;!? utc "roTtriun”!
ALSO MOTED THAT H& HAD OBTAINED
1 M5B-46?, PASE SEVEMONaAS EfIO
MIL II ARY EXPERIENCE, I
DISCHARGE. LAST RESIDENCE f
□ SSANI I; PAROLE ELIGIBILITY DATE, JAilARY 10,
19S9; CONDITIONAL RELEASE DATE, JOLY 10, 1991; iXIUJM EXPIRATION
DATE, JliY 10, 199S. fllSCELLANEOOS! ACTIVE MEMBER AND PARTICIPANT,
IN NCRIH AMERICAN MAN 30Y LOVE ASSOCIATION (NAMBLA).
ALBANY IS FURNISHING THE ABOVE INFORMATION TO RECEIVING OFFICES
PRIMARILY FOR liMATION PURPOSES, ALBANY FEELS, HOWEVER, THAT
|mAY well PSOVE
IIPORTANI LINKS IN NAMBLA'S NAIIONAL/IiER NATIONAL STRUCTURE,
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BUREAU AUTHORITY IS GRANTED FOR RECEIVING OFFICES TO TRAVEL
TO NEUARKn NEU JERSEY-. TO ATTEND A CONFERENCE RELATING TO
CAPTIONED NATTER ON THURSDAY-. JANUARY 13-. AT 1Q:D0 A.fl. IN
ACCORDANCE WITH RETEL . THE CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD IN THE N<
OFFICE AND NK HAS REQUESTED THAT REPRSENTATIVES FRON ALBANY-.
BOSTON-. BROOKLYN/tJUEENS-. AND NEU YORK ATTEND- THESE REPRSENTA-
TIVES SHOULD BE FAMILIAR UITH NAMBLA AND SHOULD BE ACCOMPANIED
BY ANY FEDERAL OR LOCAL LAU ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS IN THEIR AREA
UHO MIGHT BE ABLE .TO PROVIDE SPECIFIC INFORMATION CONCERNING
SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN BY NAMBLA- RECEIVING OFFICES
UHICH HAVE NOT BEEN SPECIFICALLY INVITED BY NK BUT UHO BELIEVE
THEY CAN FURNISH POSITIVE AND PRODUCTIVE INFORMATION SHOULD
CONTACT NK ASAC RONALD MCLANAHAN FOR ARRANGEMENTS TO ATTEND THE .
CONFERENCE.
NEUARK UILL PROVIDE RESULTS OF THE CONFERENCE TO FBIH(3-
BT
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NOTE: THIS TELETYPE RESPONDS TO NK; ASAC HCLANAHAN ' S DESIRE FOR
A CONFERENCE CONCERNING CAPTIONED HATTER AND HAS BEEN
COORDINATED WITH NEW YORK ASA 0 rRANK GT {mUTTB/V/J / o/O '
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■.Y ■■
FD-515 (Rev. 12-15-80)
JIVCCOMPLISHMENT REPORT
(Submit within 30 days from date of accomplishment)
I
director' FBI
. .,iy
/
FROM: SAC,
SUBJECT:
n
Bureau File Number
Ibany (P)
aka;
3
145B-697
Field Office File Number
Investigative Assistance or Techniques Used
Were any of the investigative assistance or techniques listed below used in connection with accomplishment
being claimed? Q No [^Yes - If Yes, rate each used as follows;
1 B Used, but did not help
2 = Helped, but only minimally
3 = Helped, substantially
4 s= Absolutely essential
5060
Squad or RA Number
'NORTH AMERICAN MAN/^BpY
LOVE ASSOCIATION— (-NAMBLA)
ITOM-SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN;
UFAP -'-KIDNAPPING
00: NEWARK
1
4/27/83
K .it
A. Preliminary Judicial Process
(Number of subjects)
Complaints
Informations
Indictments
B. Arrests, Locates & Summonses
Subject Priority (See Reverse) j
(Number of subjects)
A
B
C
FBI Arrests -
1
FBI Locates -
1 . Acctg Tech Rating
Assistance
6. ELSUR- Rating
Title Ml
1 1 . Lab Div Rating
Field Support
16. SurveH. Rating
Sqd Asst
2. Aircraft
Assistance
7. Hypnosis
Assistance
12. Pen
Registers
17. SWAT Team
Action
3. Computer
Assistance
8. IdentDivOi
Assistance
13. Photographic
Coverage
18. Telephone Toll
Records
4. Consensual
Monitoring
9. Informapt^
Information -p.
14. Polygraph ,
Assistance .
19. Undercover
Operation
5. ELSUR -
FISC
10. LabDiv
Exams r o
1 5. Show Money
Usage
20. Visual Invest -
Analysis (VIA)
Criminal Summons _
Number of Subjects of FBI Arrests Who Physically Resisted _
Number of Subjects of FBI Arrests Who Were Armed
D. Recoveries, Restitutions, Court Ordered Forfeltur^ oi|Pot^tia^ Economic Loss Prevented (PELP)
Property or
PELP Type
Code *
Recoveries
w
Restitutions
!y
Coyrt Ordered Forfeitures
Potential Economic
Loss Prevented
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$ 1
$
$
$
$
$
C. Release of Hostages: (Number of Hostages Released)
Hostages Held By Terrorists : All Other Hostage Situations _
E. Civil Matters
Amount of Suit
Settlement or Award
Government Defendant
Government Plaintiff
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Enter AFA Payment Here
F. Final Judicial Process:
Subject 1 - Name -
Judicial District
District
(Use two letter state abbreviations per U.S. Post Office Guide. For Example - The Northern District of Texas as'fJDTX; The
District of Maine as ME in the state field only.) ....O'... /r^
Conviction
Inwall Term
Suspended
Probation .t
r
Title
Section
Counts
Yrs
Mos
Yrs
Mos
Yrs
Mos f
$
X
11
J f A
/
/C
Hi
$
1^5
//
□
Pretrial
Diversion
□
Dismissal
□
Acquittal
- Convictions -
Enter conviction and
sentence data in space at
right. If more than four
sections are involved, limit to
the four most relevant.
□
Felony
□
Misde-
meanor
□
Plea
□
Trial
Subject 2 - Name -
Subject’s Description Code * - *
Conviction
In-Jall Term
Suspended
Probation
Title
Section
Counts
Yrs
Mos
Yrs
Mos
Yrs
Mos
$
D Pretrial
Diversion
□ Dismissal
EH Acquittal
* Convictions •
Enter conviction and
sentence data in sp>ace at
right. If more than four
sections are invoNed, limit to
the four most relevant.
EH Felony
|~j Misde-
EH P'ea
□ Trial
Subject 3 - Name -
Subject’s Description Code * -
|EH Pretrial
Diversion
'□ Dismissal
EH Acquittal
- Convictions •
Enter conviction and /ee=s^j
sentence data in space at
right. If more than four
sections are involved, linlit'1
the four most relevant: r\ ii
JUN
Attach additional forms if reporting final judicial process on more thian three subjects.
Remart<s: Oil 12/31/82, subject
1 1
Conviction
In-Jall Term
Suspended
M
!\Y 5 198 J
Title
Section
Counts
Yrs
Mos
Yrs
Mos
Yrs
Fine
5 ^
$ 4
* tW'
\ D0B[
was arrestea b;(
Bureau
'l - Field Office
BuAgents, officers of the Vermont State Police and Hardwick, Vt. PD, withoi
incident, in Greensboro, Vermont, based on an unlawful flight warrant to
avoid prosecution issued in 12/82 from the Federal District of New Jersey
in connection with the local warrant that was issued in New Jersey, charging
2-Newark (145B-1511)
• See codes on reverse side. Subject description codes in Section F are required only when reporting a conviction.
MDZ/mmq (6)
Property Type Codes *
Code
No Description
1 Cash (U.S. and foreign currency)
2 Stock, Bonds or Negotiable Instruments (checks, travelers checks,
money orders, certificates of deposit, etc)
3 General Retail Merchandise (clothing, food, liquor, cigarettes, TVs, etc)
4 Vehicles (autos, trucks, tractors, trailers, campers, motorcycles, etc)
5 Heavy Machinery & Equipment (heavy equipment, computers, etc)
6 Bulk Materials (grain, fuel, raw materials, metals, wire, etc)
7 Jewelry (Including unset precious and semiprecious stones)
8 Precious Metals (gold, silver, silverware, platinum, etc)
■ 9 Art, Antiques or Rare Collections
1 0 Dangerous Drugs
1 1 Weapons or Explosives
. 1 2 Businesses or Assets Forfeited
20 All Other Recoveries (not falling in any category above)
*The case file must contain an explanation of the computation of the recovery value or loss prevented. An explanation airtel must accompany this
report if the recovery is $1 million or more, or if the PELP is $5 million or more.
Subject Description Codes *
- Enter Description Code Only When Reporting a Conviction >
Organized Crime Subjects: Union Members:
1A
Boss, Underboss or Consigliere
5A
International or National Officer
IB
Capodecina or Soldier
5B
Local Officer
1C
Possible LCN Member or Associate
5C
Union Employee
ID
OC Subject Other Than LCN
Government Official Or Employees:
Known Criminals (Other Than OC Members):
6A
Federal - Elected Official
2A
Top Ten or l.O. Fugitive
6B
Federal • Nonelected Executive Level
2B
Top Thief
6C
Federal - All Other
2C
Top Con Man
6D
State - Elected Official
Foreign
Nationals:
6E
State • Nonelected Executive Level
3A
Legal Alien
6F
State - All Other
3B
illegal Alien
6G
Local - Elected Official
3C
Foreign Official Without Diplomatic Immunity
6H
Local - Nonelected Executive Level
3D
U.N. Employee Without Diplomatic Immunity
6J
Local - All Other
3E
Foreign Students
Bank Officers Or Employees:
3F
All Others
7A
Bank Officer
Terrorists:
7B
Bank Employee
4A
Known Member of a Terrorist Organization
All Others:
4B
Possible Terrorist Member or Sympathizer
8A
All Other Subjects (not fitting above categories)
*lf a subject can be classified in more than one of the categories, select the most appropriate in the circumstance.
/(■r y /V
Potential Economic Loss Prevented (PELP) Type
/
Code
No
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
Description
^ -
Blank Negotiable Instruments or Tickets
Counterfeit Stocks, Bonds. Currency or Negotiable Instruments^
Counterfeit or Pirated Sound Recordings or Motion Pictures
Bank Theft Scheme Aborted ^
Ransom, Extortion or Bribe Demand Aborted
Theft From, or Fraud Against, Government Scheme Aborted
Commercial or Industrial Theft Scheme Aborted
30 All Other Potential Economic Loss Prevented (not falling in any
category above)
Instructions
Subject Priorities for FBI Arrest or Locates:
A ' Subject wanted for crimes of violence (i.e. murder, manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault) or convicted of such crimes in
the past five years.
B - Subjects wanted for crimes involving the loss or destruction of property valued in excess of $25,000 or convicted of such crimes in the past
five years.
C - All others
Claiming Convictions Other Than Federai:
It is permissible to claim a local (state, county or local) conviction if the FBI’s investigation significantly contributed to the successful local
prosecution. A succinct narrative setting forth the basis for claiming a local conviction must accompany this report. When claiming a conviction
other than Federal, enter the word “LOCAL” in the “Conviction-Section” block, disregard the number of conviction counts, but enter the sentence
in the appropriate blocks. Enter “LF” in the “In-Jail” block for all life sentences and "CP" for all capital punishment sentences.
Reporting Convictions:
Convictions should not be reported until the sentence has been issued. There are two exceptions to this rule. The conviction Information can be
submitted by itself if: - *
1 . The subject becomes a fugitive after conviction but prior to sentencing.
2. The subject dies after conviction but prior to sentencing.
An explanation is required in the Remarks section for either of the above exceptions.
Rule 20 Situations:'
The field office that obtained the process (normally the office of origin) is the office that should claim the conviction, not the office where the
subject enters the plea in cases involving Rule 20 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedures.
Investigative Assistance or Techniques (lA/Ts) Used:
-Since more than one lA/T could have contributed to the accomplishment, each lA/T must be rated.
-The lA/T used must be rated each time an accomplishment is claimed. (For example - If informant information was the basis for a complaint, an
arrest, a recovery and a conviction and ii
Information” block must be rated on eacl
larate FD-51 5s are submitted for each of the aforemei
515 even If it was the same information that contributl
d accomplishments, the “Informant
all the accomplishments.)
AL 145B-697
Remarks continued;
[
]with kidnapping.
extradition to New Jersey.
]has since voluntarily waived
In connection with the arrest of I Ion the evening of
12/31/82, a second individual . who initially identified himself as
I, aka I
residence in|_
was located as residing at this same
Through review of identification
on his person, and at this residence, through subsequent contact with
local authorities in New Jersey, Colorado and Texas, and through contact
with the Identification Division in Washington, DC, it was determined
thatF
was actually
DOB
t
1 FBI i
was wanted by Jersey City, New Jersey authorities for
kidnapping, he was also wanted in Texas for indecent exposure with
a child, and in Colorado for parole violation. As a result of this
inquiry I I was also arrested on the evening of 12/31/82 by
Vermont State Police who assisted in the arrest of I I. It should
be noted that a fugitive locate is being claimed relative to^
]
arrest based on the fact that entire investigation to positively identify
him was conducted by BuAgents.
FD-523 (Rev. 5-4-79)
Att: Photogpai^i^ Operations Unit, Rm. 1B903
^AC, NEWARk\(145B-1511) (RBRA)
Subject:
b
-VICTIM;
ITOM\- SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF
CHILDRE]|7
00: NEtoK
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1. ENCLOSED PHOTOG^PHIC WORK RELATES TO.
I I Current Investigation I I Mug Shot Program. I I Other
n)
2. ENCLOSURE
AIRTEL
2/14/83
INSTRUCTIONS - REVERSE SIDE
FBIHQ USE ONLY
Received
Developed ^
Printed
Enl^feWnts
Copied
Other
Date/ >
jn
Film To Be Processed
1
Size
Color
B&W
Quantity
4X5
. 135
126
120
Slides
9
3. WORK REQUESTED
Processing
I 1 Process only
I X| Process & make print
I ~ I Process & make contact print
I I Slides to be processed
[ I Slides to be duplicated
□
□
Movie Film or Microfilm
Size
Color
B&W
Quantity
16mm
35mm
8(super)
70 mm
AHU
Prints To Be Mode
(From 135, 126, and 110)
□ 3V^ X 5 I 15X7
# prints from each frame
I I Color [33 B&W
( From 120 and 4 X 5)
□ 4X5 □SXIO
# prints from each frai
] — } Color □ B&W
4. REMARKS
(include trial date or other
mandatory deadline and any
other specific instructions)
Negatives To Be Printed
Size
Color
B&W
Quantity
8 X 10
4X5
135
120
126
220
110
Other
Item
Quantity
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Prints To Be Made
Custom Prints
I 1 C ibachrome (From any size negative or slide)
(Prints from slides)
□ 5X7 >
□ 8X 10
Quantity _ ^ 3_ _ _
Size 4x5
i Color P I B&W
FBIHQ Enclosure
vt\
^PHOTO
'U S .Il'STICE
INSTRUCTIONS
^ \(Z8%eb16 lUzfiH’W
GENERAL
ALL photographic work must be submitted under the substantive case caption when it relates to an investigative matter.
Include FBIHQ file number when available. All other photographic processing forms (including FD-482) are obsolete and should
not be used. The FD-523 is to be utilized for all photographic processing work forwarded to FBIHQ except employee identification
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1. ENCLOSED PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK RELATES TO:
All photographic work submitted should be checked as Current Investigation, Mug Shot Program, or OTHER in appropriate
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January 19 r 1983
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Dear
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Tout conaaunication to President Reagan concerning
the North American Man~Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) has been
referred to FBI Headquarters.
Ne certainly share your concern for the welfare of
our children and are aware of the activities of NAMBLA. Please
be assured that activities which come to our attention of this
organization or any organization indicating a possible violation
of Federal law within the mandated authority of the FBI are
promptly investigated.
Sincerely#
Roger S. Young
Assistant Director in Charge
Office of Congressional
and Public Affairs
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Executive Secretariat >
Room 4414 — e
Department of Justice
Newark (145B-1511) - Enclosures (3)
Hew York {7-2762) - Enclosures (3)
- Enclosures (5)
Enclosures (5)
NOT RECORDED
1983
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Section# CIO. I
his concern regarding
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Personal end Property ^Crimes
wrote to the President expressli^
HAKBLA and urging the President to , intact ,
the Attorney General and the Supreme Court and ^bust thla'isick
organization.” He enclosed a newspaper article concerning
the .kidriSPihq oCI land! land alleged evidence
Ni^LAbis involvedTI [ has been located and two suspects
have been grrest.ed. I I is an ongoing investigation. NAMBLA .
subject' of several investigations .including White Slave
Traffic Act and Interstate Trahsportatibn of Obscene Matter.
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Control Number
3111136
Subject and Date
Date Received
(N) 1-E LETTER TO PRES REPGPN FROM|
luRQES PRESIDENT TO EFFECT DISSOLUTION OF HOMOSEXUAL
ORGANIZATION, NAMBLA; LINKED TO KIDNAPPING OFl I
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01-11-63
Due DaU
01-19-63
(1) Referred To
I; WEBSTER
(2) Referred To
13) Referred To
(4) Referred To
Interim Response
Date
101-1 1-63
Date
Date
Date
Date
Prepare Reply for
Signature of FBI
Date Released
Remarks
RETURN ORIGINAL WHITE HOUSE PAPERS AND TWO COPIES
iDF RESPONSE TO EX SEC,' ROOM 4414. •
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THE WHITE HOUSE
REFERRAL
OFFICE
JANUARY 11, 1983
-TO: DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
ACTION REQUESTED;
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117526
LETTER, DATED JANUARY 2, 1983
PRESIDENT REAGAN
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NAMBLA and urges MEASURES BE TAKEN TO
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ITOM-SEOC; -OOs KEWAKK
Ee Newark teletype dated 1/8/83.
Referenced cosEffimnication indicates captioned
investigation pending in yonr office.
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to advise of current status of captioned investigation*'
suamiary of investigation if presently pending, or di^osition''
if closed.
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DIRECTOR, FBI (145-6188)
SAC, NEWARK (145-1511) (C) (C-4)
aka
NORTH AMERICAN MAN /BOY LOVE
ASSOCIATION (NAMBLA) ?
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ITOM - SEOC
(00: NK)
RE: Bureau airtel to Newark, 4/15/85.
The captioned investigation was closed in the Newark'
Divisio'n on 3/5/85, .based on an opinion by Newark AUSA ANN
SINGER. AUSA SINGER advised after reviewing the facts of the
case, that she would decline prosecution for reasons of weak
and insufficient evidence.
Accordingly, no further investigation is being con;^
ducted by the Newark Division.
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Approved:
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FM YORK ( BQ- 1 4 5 C -3 9 2 3 ) (P) ( C-20)
To/oipCTcJ) FBI PRIORITY
irrfN: SUPV. I ~|- PF.RBntNJAT, CRIMES
FBI NEWARK () INFO PRIORITY
/ ATTN: SA JAMES DOWD
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WORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY LOVE ASSOCIATION (NAMBLA) ITOM-SEOC, ^00: NY
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(BQ) .
RE BQ TELCALL TO FBIRQ SUPV.[
], OCTOBER 25, 1985, AND
FBIRQ TELETYPE TO NEW YORK, DATED AUGUST 23, 1985.
FOR INFORMATION OF FBIHQ, ON T^E WEEKEND OF NOVEMBER 8-10,
1985, THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR NAMBLA WILL TAKE PLACE AT 142
W.24TH STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK
REFERENCED BUREAU TELETYPE REQUESTS A TOTAL AND VIGOROUS
INVESTIGATION INTO NAMBLA, AND PURSUANT TO THIS REQUEST, IT IS FELT
SEE ASD ADDENDUM PAGE 6
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THAT BOTH STATIONARY AND MOBILE SURVEILLANCE WILL BE REQUIRED, THE
PURPOSE IN COVERING THIS CONFERENCE WILL BE TO CONFIRM OLD •
MEMBERSHIPS, ADD NEW MEMBERS, AND MONITOR APPEARANCE OF OUT OF TOWN
MEMBERS,. THIS WILL ALSO PROVIDE THE SEOC TASK FORCE WITH CURRENT
PHOTOS OF ATTENDEES. LASTLY, IT IS FELT THAT SURVEILLANCES MAY LEAD
TO AN OBSERVATION OF NAMBLA MEMBERS DIRECTLY INVOLVED WITH CHILDREN
OR THE SEEKING OUT OF CHILDREN.
THE NYO SURVEILLANCE TEAK WAS NOT CONSIDERED FOR COVERAGE IN
THIS MATTER DUE TO THE NATURE OF THE VIOLATION. POLICY IN THIS AREA
DICTATES THAT IF A SITUATION ARISES IN WHICH THE POSSIBILITY OF »
ABUSE OF A CHILD BECOME S ' AP PARE NT , STEPS MUST BE IMMEDIATELY TAKEN
TO INTERCEDE AND END ANY CHANCE OF THIS HAPPENING. IT IS FELT THAT
EXPERTISE IN THE AREA OF SEOC IS REQUIRED TO MAKE AN ON THE SPOT
DECISION BASED UPON PAST EXPERIENCE AND THE PERTINENT CIRCUMSTANCES.
NAMBLA PUBLICATIQNS HAVE OPENLY ALERTED AND WARNED THEIR
MEMBERS TO FBI INTEREST IN THEIR ACTIVITIES, AND ACCORDINGLY, AS A
GROUP ARE EXTREMELY SURVEILLANCE CONSCIOUS. IT IS THEREFORE FELT
THAT THE USE OF BUREAU AUTOS HAY RESULT IN "BURNED” VEHICLES, WHICH
WOULD SERIOUSLY HAMPER FUTURE SURVEILLANCES ON NY MEMBERS. A LARGE
NUMBER OF SURVEILLANCES ARE PLANNED BY NY' IN THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE
PAGE THREE DE NY 0111 UNCLAS
AND "CLEAN" CARS ARE A MUST. THE USE OF 3 RENTAL CARS WILL ENABLE
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THE TASK FORCE TO HAVE 6 PEOPLE INVOLVED IN SURVEILLANCES WITH THE
/
OPTION TOCHANGE THEM AS DEEMED REQUIRED. ' '
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION OF THE BUREAU,! |eNTITLED
m
], ITOM-SEOC, 00:NY (BQ)" IS A NEWLY OPENED CASE IN
WHICH IT IS ANTICIPATED THAT A CONVICTED PEDOPHILE WHO IS ENGAGED IN
CHILD PORNOGRAPHY ON A PERSONAL AS WEL-L AS A COMMERCIAL LEVEL, WILL
SOON BE IN DIRECT CONTACT WITH A NEW YORK UNDERCOVER OPERATIVE, AS
THE RESULT OF A COOPERATIVE WITNESS*
ALTHOUGH
RELATIONSHIP WITH NAMBLA IS NOT KNOWN, HE
HAS CORRESPONDED WITH THE ORGANIZATION. IT IS FELT THAT THIS CASE
WILL ALSO REQUIRE DISCREET SURVEILLANCES AS | |IS
.UNDERSTANDABLY CONCERNED ABOUT LAW ENFORCEMENT PRESENCE, HAVING
RECENTLY GOTTEN OUT OF PRISON FOR HIS ACTIVITIES REGARDING CHILD
PORNOGRAPHY.
THE 3 VEHICLES .'WILL BE RENTED FROM AVIS SHORELINE CAR RENTALS,
t
MATAWAN, NJ, A FREQUENTLY USED RENTAL AGESNCY IN THE NY DIVISION.
THESE CARS WILL BE OPERATED BY TASK FORCE MEMBERS AND MILEAGE WILL
BE MAINTAINED. ^
BUREAU WILL BE INITIALLY REQUESTED TO APPROVE THE RENTAL OF 3
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VEHICLES FOR A' PERIOD OF 30 DAYS.
BUREAU WILL BE ADVISED OF ALL DEVELOPMENTS IN BOTH ABOVE
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ADDENDUM:
CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIVE DIVISION
(CID)
10/28/85
The New York Office Sexual Exploitation of Children
Task Force has been directed by the CID to give the highest
priority to the investigation of the North American Man Boy Love
Association (NAMBLA) . Based upon this mandate, CID concurs that
it is necessary for the Task Force to rent three cars for 30 days
so that they can effectively conduct the needed surveillance of
NAMBLA members during and after its conference.
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Teletype from New York dated 10/25/85
Re: NORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY LOVE
ASSOCIATION (NAMBLA) ITOM-SEOC
00: NY (BQ) >
ADDENDUM:
ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES DIVISION (ASP);
y/^; 10/30/85
The ASD concurs with the New York Office (NYO) request to
rent three vehicles for a thirty-day period to support the
investigation of the "NORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY LOVE ASSOCIATION
(NAMBLA)”. Currently, there are no suitable seized and/or excess
vehicles available for this operation. The rental period for these
vehicles may not exceed beyond 12/1/85. These rental vehicles are
assigned Bucar Numbers 99-3797i 99-3798 and 99-3799. These vehicles
must be rented in accordance with the guidelines as set forth in the
Manual of Administrative Operations and Procedures, Part II, Section
6-6.10, Page 461.
The Case Agent should ensure that the above-listed vehicles
are properly serviced and all costs, along with the monthly odometer
readings are forwarded to the NYO Automotive Clerk.
When these vehicles are placed into service, the NYO must
forward to FBIHQ, Automotive Management Unit (AMU), Room 6863, each
vehicle's make, model, model year. Vehicle Identification Number,
monthly cost and beginning odometer mileages.
RECOMMENDATION : That the NYO be authorized to rent these vehicles for
a thirty-day period not to extend beyond 12/1/85 to support the
captioned operation.
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NOTE: In a conversation involving SSA|^
of the Criminal
stated that
Investigative Division (CID) and the AMU, SSA
Assistant Director Floyd Clarke has given this investigation the
highest priority. Based on the attached communication and the
concurring CID addendum dated 10/28/85, CID“should forward a copy of
the outgoing communication to the ASP AM U , Room 6863, and _the
Confidential Voucher Unit, ASD, Room 1 388..
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ATTN:.BROOkLYN-QUEEWS Ra
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)^MERICaN MAN/B,O^LQV£j^SpClAm ; ITOM - SEX^UAL EXPLOFTA-|
TION OF CHILDREN; POSSIBLE MURDEp/f^ 00: BuFFaLO,
FOR INFORMATION, BuFFaLO DIVISION RECEIVED A TELBaE i^.g)iK£RIE
COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT, BuFFaLO, NEw YORK, AND WERE' INFORMED
\
that (X)
aka
FBI RE Na^La ORGANIZATION.
ON OCT. 18, i$83,|
^ .alleged MEffiERS _0F/N0_RT_H_, /
(X), DESIRED TO TALK TO THE
IlNTEjfllEwED BY BUFFALO AGENTS AT ERIE
COUNTY HOLDIJJG CENTER WHERE HE WAS INCaRCERaTED ON A CHARGE OF THEFT,
awaiting TO BE EXTRaDITED BaCr TO THE STATE OF TEXaS
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CHILD pornography a^D HE
SEEN THE CHILD PORNOGRAPHY.
OF NaMBLa.
ISTaTED THaTI
^X), IS A PRODUCER aMD DISTRIBUTOR OF
Has. BEEN INI [apartment and
STATED THaT I |lS ALSO A MEt®ER
V/HO Ov/NS THE (X)f
, RESIDING IN
(X), IS also a MEMBER OF NaMBLA.
also is a Major producer aNd distributor of child pornography,
]s,tated thaT he was Furnishing the above to the fbi in
an effort TO~i?SSIST THE FBI aND OUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT IN AN
EFFORT TO kEEP FROM BEING EXTRADITED BaCK TO THE STaTE OF TEXAS TO
Face theft charges.
IT IS NOTED THaT[
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OF THE Fact THaT he is being characterized as being SUICIDAL^
IS DESCRIBED aS A WHITE MaLE, 5'8", 140 POUNDS, BLUE EYES, BROWN,
At A
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request of the Bureau - bureau is requested to search above
Names in fbihq indices.
NEw YORK aT BROOKLYN -quEENS, NEW YORK - (D ATTEMPT TO
Iwas Murdered on christmas day, dec. 25,'
ascertain if
1976. (2) CONDUCT LOCaL CRIMINAL aND OFFICE INDICES SEARCH RE
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Page four bu i45c-new unclaS
ABOVE Names in an aHempt to verify I I story,
WFO ftT WASHINGTON, D.C, - CONDUCT LOCaL CRIMINAL AND OFFICE
INDICES search RE aBOVE NaMES IN A^ TO VERIFYl |STORY .
Buffalo aT attica, new york - upon receipt of information from
OTHER DIVISIONS, aSCERTaIN IF| |1S INCARCERATED AT
ATTICA, NEw YORK and THEREAFTER INTERVIEW HIM RE KIDNAPING I I
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TO DIRECTOR FBI ROUTINE
FBI BUFFALO ( 145 C- NEW) ROUTINE
FOR information OF FBIHQ AND BUFFALO, THE SEXUALLY EXPLOITED
CHILD UNIT (SECU) HAS ACTIVE INVESTIGATIONS CONCERNING NORTH
AMERICAN MAN/BOY LOVE ASSOCIATION (NAMBL A) (BQ 145C-3923) AND|
~|IS WELL KNOWN TO .SECU AS AN OWNER OF •.
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PORNOGRAPHIC no VIE HOUSES AND NIGHT CLUBS IN THE MANHATTAN AREA
(BQ
P. ALLEGATIONS HAVE BEEN, MADE THAT
HAS BEEN
INVOLVED IN MALE PROSTITUTION WITH UNDERAGE YOUTHS.
HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED THROUGH NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT' OF MOTOR
VEHICLES RECORDS AS|
, MALE, WHITE, DATE OF BIRTH
FURTHER CHECKS ARE IN PROGRESS.
appears ACCURATE,
• IN OPINION OF BQMRA, INFORMATION FROM
ALTHOUGH dated. HOWEVER, ATTEMPTS TO CORROBORATE INFORMATION
REGARDING HOMICIDE THUS FAR UNSUCCESSFUL., BQMRA IS UNCLEAR
regard ING
STATUS WITH LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND IF COOPERATION
AGREEMENT ACCEPTABLE TO TEXAS AUTHORITIES IS FEASIBLE, FURTHER
AS^SSMENT OFl IPOTENTIAL VALUE APPEARS NECESSARY.
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determine SOURCE/WITNESS
CONSIDER IN DEPTH INTERIVEW OF TO-
value.
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2. ADVISE BQMRA IF COOPERATION AGREEMENT BASED 0N|
potential in WSTA(C) is feasible WITH STATE AUTHORITIES.
, ' BQMRA, AT QUEENS, NEW YORK. INVESTIGATION CONTINUING.
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Memorandum
From
Subject :
DIRECTOR, FBI
AC, BUFFALO (145C-663) (P)
ri)
Date 12/15/83
Alleged Members of North American
Man/Bov Love Association (nAMBLA)'
"iTOM-SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN;
POSSIBLE MURDER
(00: BUFFALO)
Brooklyn-Queens teletype to Buffalo, date® M/
Re Buffalo teletype to Bureau
1
p/m/'iZ and
For information of Brooklyn-Q;aeens , on 11/1/83, |
I I, aka I I was interviewed indepth by BuAgents,
Buffalo Division, regarding possible source and/or witness value
at the Erie County Holding Center , Buffalo, New York. Based on
interview, it appears that I I cannot furnish any further in-
formation other than what he furnished to BuAgents on 10/18/83.
If Brooklyn-Queens cannot develop any positive, pertinent infor-
mation regarding the murder of | |, Buffalo will
consider this matter closed.
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BROOKLYN-QUEENS
Advise Buffalo of any pertinent information v/hich
has been developed regarding the murder of
2J- Bureau
2 - Brooklyn-Queens
2 - Buffalo
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□ UNCLAS
12/29/83
FROM:
SUBJECT :
DIRECTOR, FBI
BROOKLYN-QUEENS (145C-4059) (RUC) (BQ-8)
/
■ALLEGE F
- N0RTH"-XMER I C AN MAN / BO Y ^
LOVE" A S S 0‘C I AT I ON:'^'f(^N AMBL A ) ^
ITOM' - SEXUAL* EXPLOITATION
OF CHILDREN; POSSIBLE MURDER
(OOrBUFFALO)
Re Buffalo teletype to Bureau, dated 10/18/83, and
Brooklyn-Queens teletype to Buffalo, da ted 10 / 2 7 / 83 ; Buffalo letter
to Bureau, dated 12/16/83.
NYPD, went
1 Police Plaza, NYC, to
On 10/27/83, and D e t . |
to the Chief of Detectives Office, NYPD, , ,
determine if I |was the victim of a murder on 12/25/76,
UAA| [maintains the ^cords there for all homicides in NYC
chronologically and by victims’ names. A review of the. homicide
log of victims’ names for 1975, 1976 and 1977 failed to discove
or a name even similar thereto. The chronolo^g ical
lists of homicides for 1976 and 1977 were also reviewed for tj ^
month of December_ and failed to list a victim with a name sim|
to^
Inasmuch as referenced Buffalo letter indicated no source
potential f o r | |, and no leads remain outstanding at
BQMRA, this case is being placed in an RUC stat,u^
Q - Bureau Oc/c/j(>
2 - Buffalo (145C-663)
1 - Brooklyn-Queens (145C-^^^o9)
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U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
1982 0 - 369-895
Airtel
3/22/85
Director, FBI
SAC, Buffalo (i45G-HBM)
LMsLEGEB iaB84BBHS OFyUSOETH
,„.-mig/B.Qy .Levs Associ&^iG^i^^BfX) t
mt BUFFALO
He Buffalo teletype dated 10/13/83 «
Referenced coKsmmication indicates captioned
investigation pendinf in your office.
In order to ®date FBIIQ files, you are reguested
to advise of current status of captioned investigation,
surmaary of investigation if presently pending, or disposition
if closed.
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MR 25 1985
Exec AO Adm.
Exec AD Inv.
Exec AD LE$
Aest. Dir.;
Adm. Serve.
Crim. Inv.
Ideot.
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intell.
Lab.
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Rec. Mgnt.
Tech. Serve.
Training
Telephone Rm.
Diractor'e See'y
a S' MAR 27 1985
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Date 4/2/85
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TO: DIRECTOR, FBI
FRC
SAC, BUFFALO (145C-663) (C)
ALLEGED MEMBERS OF '(^ORTHAMERTCAN
MAN/BOY LOVE...ASSOCIATION ^^(NAMBLA)
ITOM - SEOC; POSSIBLE MURDER
00 ; BUFFALO
/
Re Bureau airtel dated 3/22/85.
For the information of the Bureau, Buffalo closed
investigation in view of the fact no leads remained outstanding
and there did not appear to be a violation. This investigation
was closed on 3/13/84.
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U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1984 O ^ 449-465
HQ 163-51127
<i r^ ,tfx;>t,a^ ■■i.
[SOME QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
' ABOUT
i MAN - BOY LOVE
1. Wkat ts man/bor her?
Man/ boy love is a loving relationship bet-
^Mween a boy, usually 12-17, but sometimes
younger, and a man 18 or older.
S ‘2- Dori 'f you mran srx ?
Yes and no. Man/boy relationships often
^►1 involve sex. They also involve mutual
^^Jearing, respect, and affection. Sex is
good, healthy, and necessary whether one
C :a ** an adult or a young person.
C ^ 3- /sn'f that child molestation ?
y Just the opposite. Such relationships are
sought out both by the boy and the man.
} I They are enjoyed by mutual consent.
Molestation occurs only when there's
? force or coercion.
^ 4. Jsn't this homosexuality ?
? jVVell. obviously sex between a man and a
) bo\- is homosexual sex. But many boys
engage in such sex as part of their se!f-
* 7 idiscovery. and may not think of ihem-
Helves as ‘"homosexual." Many also
experiment with heterosexual sex.
.5. Doesn't sex ivith a man turn a boy into a
homosexual ?
There is absolutely no evidence to sup-
port such a claim.
ft. Isn't sex with minors against the law?
Unfortunately, yes. But this is a case
where the law is out of kilter with the
I needs of, young people. These laws are a
1 reaction of insecure adults to the
imagined threat of adolescent sexuality.
7. !sn 't homosexuality between a man and a
j youth sick ?
Not by any rational definition. Homosex-
uality is no sicker than heterosexuality.
y| What is sick is society's efforts to supress
I and persecute it. It is truly pernicious for
society to impose an artificial age barrier
at which time children are allowed to
enjoy their own bodies, as the age-of-con-
sent laws and other laws do.
8. Hut aren 't agr -of-eon\ettt law^ needed to
prutict ittnn/rrtf tluldrenP
From w'hat — themselves? These laws pro-
leci nobody. There ts no mystical age at
whtch a child becomes capable of con-
senting to sex. Children seek sex with
sHovm-
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‘7
SHO
adults everywhere in our society. Boy-
lovers are usually in closer touch with the
needs of children than the parents them-
selves are. Law's against assault and coer-
cion should be enforced. But consensual
sex should be left up to the individuals
involved.
Aren't you corrupting America's youth
and doing them harm ?
Se.x harms nobody, providing it is con-
sensual and does not result in misfortunes
like unwanted pregnancy or guilt. Harm
is caused only bv the use of force or by
punishment for sexual acliN’ity freely
engaged m.
10. ^^'hy can't boy- lovers have sex with peo-
ple o f rheir owri age ?
Many, if not most, do. But there is no
rational reason why they should refuse to
share their sexuality with boys who want
to discover more about themselves and
male sexuality.
11. Who are boy -lovers?
Boy-lovers exist in all classes and races.
They frequently are the men who work
with boys, who are sensitive to the needs
of. boys. Without them our society would
be greatK imp>overished.
The onl\ thing boy-lovers share in
common is their love for boys. They are
truck drivers, bank presidents, teachers,
policemen, athletes, ministers and often
the married man next door.
Few p>eople besides boy-lovers have the
interest, patience, and understanding it
takes to w'ork with adolescents. If boy
lo\ ers were to disappear, so would the
Boy Scouts, Big Brothers, many summer
camps, schfKil athletic prj>gram.s, and
many male tear he- rs.
12. What do boy -lovers do with boys?
As in most human relationships, most of
their time is spent in nomsexuai activities
of interest .amd benefit to both the boy and
the man. Sexually, they tend to engage in
masiurbatory and oral techniques. .\ny
sexual acts they enjoy together are deter-
mined by the boy
13. Aren't boy -lovers dangerous?
Not in the least. They are aware of
society's c,ondemnatipn ^ of youth sex-
uality, , and of . their own vulnerability*.'
They aJso love boys, ana oesire only to
give pleasure to them.
What is dangerous ts society's denial of
young pteople's sexuality and rights. ‘
Because of these factors boy-lovers may
be more mature and responsible than the
DaVe
axerage person.
14. It Ar should / allow my son in associau
with one?
Because if he wants to it’s good for him.^
Our society is diverse, and sexual tastes
cannot be reduced to the. adult heterosex-
ual married model. Boys are sexual
beings. Often they do not share the anti-
sexual outlook of many adults. Besides,
delinquency flourishes in part because j
teenagers are denied outlets for theJ
exuberance that characterizes adolescentj
sexuality. When sexual expression is |
muted, delinquency declines.
What Is NAMBLA?
NAMBLiA was formed in .J
ber 1978, in response to growing
attacks on consensual sexual
activity between men and boys, and
in response to efforts to portray gay
men as ‘child molesters’- We feel it (
is time to come back and answer
such lies and attacks with the truth.
NAMBLA supports consenting
sexual activity and other worth- ^
while pursuits among all people.
We have chapters in several states,
we publish a Journal and a bulletin,
and we hold periodic conferences.
The next conference is scheduled >
for June 1980.
Membership
The donation for annual member-
ship is ten dollars which entities
you to 10 bulletins and 2 journals
plus occasional leaflets. Annual
membership for libraries and
institutions is $25. Those in special
circumstance, i.e., students,
prisoners, unemployed, etc., may
apply for reduced rates or free
membership.
NAMBLA
P. O. Box 174
Midtown Station
New York City 10018
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‘Lai'EREiM
INFORMATION CONTAINED
S UNCLASSiFlED
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DIRECTOR, FBI
SAC, BUFFALO (163-NEW) (P)
;ORTH AMERICAN MAN /BOY LOVE
NAMBLA)
Date 3y 2 3/82
'ml mfoRmwcwWN® - - ■
heron is
. (00 BUREAU)
Enclosed for the Burea^ and receiving offices is one
Xerox page regarding NAMBLA
On 3/12/82,
], Intelligence Bureau (2186),
Metropolitan Toronto Police Department (MTPD) , Toronto,
Ontario, Canada, advised the MTPD was presently looking into
some high ranking Toronto public officials who were supposed
associated with the above association. | [advised
that NAMBLA was an association which prostituted young boys
normally from 12 to 17 years of age or even younger. Based
on the enclosed, NAMBLA is supposedly located at P. 0. Box
174, Midtown Station, New York, NY. Information received by
the MTPD is that the association is operating in the New
England States and sent young boys to Niagara Falls, NY and
then up to Toronto, Ontario, Canada for the purpose of prosti-
tution. The mailing address in Toronto is "Glad Day Book
Store" located at 648A Young Street, Toronto .
The manaqgijr in the New England States is an individual
by the name ~|/ whose telephone number is
(4^ Bureau
(1 - Legat Ottawa)
(1 - Liaison Unit, INTD)
2 - Boston
2 - New York
2 - Buffalo
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BU 163-NEW
The telephone numberln Niagara Falls, NY for NAMBLA
is supposedly 716-282-2929 .jP&T
Young advised that the MTPD would appreciate if the
FBI could determine the fol lowing
Determine subscriber information to telephone numbers
617-542-0144 and 716-282-2929, and thereafter conduct office
indices checks on these subscribers.^^
Conduct an indices check on NAMBLA, which ^s located
at P. 0. Box 174, Midtown Station, New York, NY^^i^^
^ Determine if NAMBLA has ever "j been investigated by the
fbiJK
In view of the close working relationship between the
MTPD and the Buffalo Office, it is recommended that receiving
offices be permitted to honor the request of the MTPD.WQ
UACB, receiving offices will conduct lead in accordance
with MIOG 163-5. Results of investigation should be returned to
the Buffalo Division in the form of an LHM suitable for dissemi-
nation to the MTPD.^
REQUEST OF THE BUREAU
Bureau is requested to conduct indices search on NAMBLA.
LEADS
BOSTON
AT BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
Determine subscriber information to telephone number^
617-542-0144 and conduct an indices check on the subscriber
NEW YORK
AT NEW YORK, NEW YORK
Conduct indices search on NAMBLA located at P. 0. Box
174, Midtown Station, New York, NY.^
-2-
BU 16 3 -NEW
LEADS (Cont'd.)
BUFFALO
AT NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK
Will determine subscriber to telephone number 716-
282-2929 an^thereafter conduct indices check regarding the
subscriber
AT TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA
Will maintain contact with MTPD
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Date 4/28/82
TO ; '’^6(mECTOR, FBI
FROM ; j^AC'X, BOSTON (163-1934) (RUG)
SUBJECT .U^NORTH_A^RICAN^MAN=/.BO.Y
LOVERS ASSOCIATION #i(NAMBLA)
. --
(00; Bureau)
/
Re Buffalo airtel to the Bureau, 3/23/82.
Enclosed for Buffalo is an original and 5 copies
of an LHM reflecting investigation at Boston, MA.
Enclosed for the Bureau is one copy of above LHM.
For information of Buffalo Division, Boston case
145B-792 entitled, "NATIONAL MAN/BOY LOVERS ASSOCIATION"
(NAMBLA) was opened in March 1979 based on information supplied
by the San Francisco Division. Investigation determined NAMBLA is
a national organization with an individual named I I
heading the Boston chapter. Boston case is currently in an RUC
status as San Francisco is office of origin.
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2 - Boston (1-163-1934)
(1-145B-792)
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
In Reply, Please Refer to ‘
File No. Boston, Massachusetts ..
April S8, 1982
NORTH AlffiRICAN MAN /BOY
LOVERS ASSOCIATION
(NAMBLA)
. ; A check with the records at the New England- Telephone
Company- revealed, that telephone niomber 617-542-oi44 is listed to the
Glad Day Liberation Book Shop, 22 Bromfield Street, Boston,
Massachusetts. ,
A confidential source who has supplied reliable information
in the past to the Boston Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
advised that the Glad Day Gay Liberation Book Shop has a section
dealing with pedophile- material . Source also advised the Boston Office >
that the Glad Day Gay Liberation Book Shop has been a gathering place
in the past for Boston members of the NAMBLA organization.
On April 22, 1982, a check was made at the City Clerk's .
Office, Boston, Massachusetts and disclosed that a business certificate
for the Glad Day Book Shop, 22 Bromfield Street, Boston, dated
February 13, 1979, is registered tol I,
Boston Office of the FBI has determined that
associate of the NAMBLA organization.
Investigation by the
I is an
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AU' INFORMATfOW OCWAi
HEREIN!
D-ATE ...jt
This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the
FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is , loaned to your agency; it.
and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.
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DIRECTOR, FBI
SAC, BUFFALO (163-98A)
4-^m)RTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY LOVE
(NAMBLA)
FPC
(00: BUREAU)
aluwi
HERBtMlSU
date
Re Buffalo airtel to Director, 3/23/82, Biareau teletype
to Buffalo, 4/8/82, and Boston airtel to Bureau, 4/28/82.
Enclosed for the Bureau is the original and three
copies of an LHfl. reflecting investigation conducted by the
Buffalo Division.
UACB Buffalo will disseminate the enclosed LHM to the
MTPD, which PD requested the investigation.
FBI representative mentioned in LHM from Albany Division
is SCI I. who obtained subscriber Information
from the New York Telephone Company. Permission obtained from
New York Telephone Company to disseminate subscribe:^information
to the MTPD.
FBI representative of the Buffalo Office is
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UACB New York will conduct lead set forth *3Eh Wy^i-£fei988d
communication, dated 3/23/82 with results of investigation
being returned ^ ■^e Buffalo Division in the form uf“Sn Lhi''i ***~-=”
sui table for dissemination to the MTPD.
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2 -
2 -
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Bureau (Encs. 4) (163-51127)
INTD)
(1 - Legat Ottawa)
(1 - Liaison Unit,
New York
Buffalo
T,.gi.q;fnb
ORIGINAL DOCUIViENT (S) ENCLOSED
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In Reply, Please Refer to
F i le No.
U.S. Departmc^ppf Justice
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Buffalo, New York
August 11, 1982
NORTH AjyiERICAN MAN/BOY
LOVE (NAMBLA)
A representative of the Albany Office of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Albany, New York,
conducted the following investigation at Albany, New York,
at the request of the Intelligence Bureau, Metropolitan
Toronto Police Department (MTPD) , Toronto, Ontario, Canada:
Subscriber to telephone number 716-282-2929 is
listed to Baker and Taylor Company,- 50 Kirby Avenue,
Sommerville, New Jersey 08876.
A representative of the Buffalo Office of the FBI,
Buffalo, New York, conducted the following investigation at
Buffalo:
A check of the Indices of the Buffalo FBI Office is
negative re telephone number 716-282-2929 and Baker and
Taylor Company, located at 50 Kirby Avenue, Sommerville,
New Jersey 08876.
33H IS DOiaiEJN'I COTTA IMS NErTHER
RECCMMM>ATI'OiNlS NOR dONOriUiSIOTS
OF THE FBI. IT IS THE FROPEIRTY OF
THE FBI AMD US DOANED TO Y'GOR. AGBMCY ;
IT A!MD I'TIS CIOMTENITS ARE MOT TO BE '
DriSTRlB,UTEID OUIISIDE YOUR AGBHICY.,,
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(I
TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (163-51127)
FROM: SAC, BUFFALO (163-984), (P)
^3)RTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY LOVE
fNAMBISl
FPC
(00 :■ BUREAU)
Re Buffalo airtels to Bureau, 3/23/82 and 8/11/82.
For information of New York, referenced communications
set forth lead for New York to conduct an indices search bn
NAMBLA located at P. O. Box 174, Midtown Station, New York,
New York. As of the date of this communication, Buffalo has not
received any correspondence from New York City.
UACB, New York will conduct lead set forth in re
communications with results of investigation being returned to J-i'
the Buffalo Division in the form of an LHM suitable for dissem-'^“
ination to Metro Toronto Police Department, Toronto, Ontario.
Bureau
(1 - LU, INTD)
U - Legat, Ottawa)
2 - New York
3 - Buffalo
(1 - 66-2506)
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OPTiWAL FORM NO. 10
MAY i 882 EDITION ..
GSA FPMR (41 CFR)' I0I-11.8 '
.. -'UNITED. STATES GOVERNMENT
t
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date:- -3/30/83
■TOV t-DIRECTOR, FBI (163-51127) '
(ATTN: ■•LIAISON UNIT)- ' , ! ' ; , .
SAC, ' buffalo (163-984) (RUC)- ,
subj^t: north AMERICAN: MAN/ BOY LOVE ASSOCIATION
, (NAMBLA) ■ ■ ■
.. r ' ^ /-V '-V'- ■■ - ■
M XOO:-;' BURE^^ • • ■ ■ , . T- .
■ Re Buffalo ,airtel to f he. Bureau, 10/27/82 v . •
New York airtel to Buf.faio, 12/8/82, and- Brppklyn-Queehs , . •
teietype to. the Bureau, 2/4/83. ^ , , . , • . ■ ' '
... For- informatiph of' the... Bureau, investigation which
was. requested by the Metropolitan Torontp . Police Department
(MTPD ) y Toronto , Ontario , Canada. j has. been conducted and . •. - .
disseminated to that police, department ., ■. ; ; '
, ; In' referenced communication dated 2/4/83, ' Brooklyn- ,
Queens advise'd ' that the Brooklyn-Queens off ice has , been con-
ducting an inyestigation into captioned- organization since' »
February of 19 81 .; Several spin-off . investigations , both M
Federal' and local , have resulted; relating, tp. NAMBLA membera.
; As a’ result of this recent investigatipn,. national ^
media Attention has been focUsed on>.cap,tiphed organizatio^-T'/
The Brooklyn-CJueens of f ice is" attempting ! to f ormulate a /A
Sexual Exploited Child Task. Force tp;,.coprdinate local qn4io
Federal investigation into these vmatters . ' , I
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fi,n Toronto ,. Ojdtario;., Canada ,• diie to the.', large number of
, members in. this particular ' organization. ' . - . •-•
I [advised that -as. of this date,/ no
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ER00KLYN-2UEEMS HAP BEE^' CCMDIJCTING AN INVESTIGATION INTO
CAPTIONED ORGANIZATION SINCE FEBRUARY, 1931. SEVERAL SPIN-OFF
investigations, both federal and local have RESULTED RELATING TO
NAHELA MEMBERS, ON DECEMBER 19, 1932, FEDERAL SEARCH WARRANTS WERE
EXECUTED at MAMBLA LOCATIONS IM NEW YORK CITY, VOLUMINOUS MATERIAL
RELATING TO THEIR BUSINESS ACTIVITIES AND MEliPERSHIP HAVE BEEN
SEIZED, AN IN-DEPTH INVENTORY OF THESE ITEMS IS STILL BEING
CONDUCTED AT 30,
AS A RESULT OF THIS RECENT ACTION, NATIONAL MEDIA ATTENTION HA
BEEN FOCUSED ON CAPTIONED ORGANIZATION, 8G IS ATTEMPTING TO
FORMULATE A SEXUALLY EXPLOITED CHILD TASK FORCE TO COORDINATE
LOCAL/FEDERAL INVESTIGATION INTO THESE MATTERS,
BUFFALO IS REQUESTED TO PROVIDE AM UPDATE OF THE NAMBLA
I rWESTIGATIOM BEING CONDUCTED BY THE METROPOLITAN TORONTO POLICE
department (MTPD) , TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA AMD ADVISE IF SaI
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AIRTEL , DATED
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OP JUSTICE
FEDERAL BUREAU OP INVESTIGATION
AIRTEL
DATE: DEC 8 1982
TO t SAC, BUFFALO (163-984)
FROM : BROOKLYN-QUEENS MRA (14SB-3923) (P) (BQ-3)
SUBJECT: NORTH AMERICAN HAN/BOY LOVE ASSOCIATION
(NAMBLA)
P.O. BOX 174, MIDTOWN STATION
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10018
ITOM-SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OP CHILDREN
(OO:B0)
Re Buffalo airtel to FBIHO, dated 10/27/82.
Enclosed for Buffalo are the orqinal and three copies of
an LHM regarding captioned matter. Also enclosed for the
information of Buffalo is a copy of an airtel, dated April 23,
1982, pertaining to the captioned organization.
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2-Buffalo (163-984) (Ends. 6)
O'Brooklyn-Queens (145B-3923)
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OP JUSTICE
FEDERAL BUREAU OP INVESTIGATION
Rego Park, New York
November 12, 1982
DATEg:
North American' Man/Boy Love
Association (NAMBLA) , Post Office Box 174,
^Midtown Station, New York 10018
Interstate Transportation of Obscene
atter - Sexual Exploitation of Children
Information developed by the Brooklyn-Queens
Metropolitan Resident Agency (BQMRA) of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI), New York City (NYC), New York (NY) Division,
has resulted in investigations being initiated into the
activities of captioned organization. These investigations are
based on violations of Title 18, United States Code, Sections
2251, 2252, and 2423, relating to the Sexual Exploitation of
Children Act of 1978,
The North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) is
composed of pederast/boy lovers who openly express their views
and attitudes in a monthly publication titled the ”NAMBLA
Bulletin.* The NAMBLA philosophy, as expressed in these
publications, reveal their attitude toward present state and
federal laws relating to sexual activity with children. From a
NAMBLA Bulletin was the following: "NAMBLA is an organization
founded in response to the extreme oppression of men and boys
involved in consensual sexual and other relationships with each
other. Its membership is open to all individuals sympathetic to
man/boy love in particular and sexual freedom in general. NAMBLA
is strongly opposed to age of consent laws and other restrictions
which deny adults and youth the full enjoyment of their bodies
and control over their lives. NAMBLA* s goal is to end the
long-standing oppression of men and boys involved in any mutually
consensual relationship by:
1. Building a support network for such men and boys.
2. Educating the public on the benevolent nature of
Man/Boy Love .
4 - Buffalo (163-984)
1 - Brooklyn-Queens (145B-3923)
KTRtjrog
(5)
This document contains neither recommendations nor
conclusions of the FBI, it is the property of the FBI
and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are
not to “be distributed outside your agency^ " --
RE: NAMBLA
P.O. Box 174, Midtown Station,
New York, New York 10018
3. Cooperating with the lesbian, gay and other
movements for sexual liberation.
4. Supporting the liberation of persons of all ages
from sexual prejudice and oppression.
The NAMBLA Bulletin continues:
"We believe sex is good and wholesome. We support the
right of young people, as well as adults, to choose freely the
partner with whom they wish to share and enjoy their bodies. We
encourage and support young people in their rebellions against
the antisexual restrictions imposed upon them by adults>parents ,
police, moral crusaders, the church, the law, and the state. We
oppose age of consent laws and other legislation against the
freedom of youths.”
A review of the NAMBLA Bulletins revealed references to
a NAMBLA Chapter in Toronto, Canada, present address unknown.
a Steering Committe member in
], was
[
listed as a NAMBLA contact in Toronto. Investigation by the
Boston Division has revealed] lis
affiliated with the Glad Day Book Shop, 22 Bromfield Street,
Boston, Massachusetts, telephone (617) 542>0144. The Glad Day
Book Shop has been a known gathering place for NAMBLA members,
post office box for the Boston NAMBLA Chapter, P.O. Box 2493,
Boston,
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^listed as the alternate.
] with
The telephone number for
the glad Day Book Shop, (617) 542-0144 is subscribed to by
Also on January 19, 1982, the Boston Police
Department conducted a search of
found literature Indicating that
NAMBLA. I a kno%m leader of NAMBLA and resides at
residence and
was associated with
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
DATE: 2 1 1983
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(00:EHPEAU)
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some, points which do not clearly cojae oht of the docuaieirt^ '
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April 7, 1994
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WASHINGTON. D.C.
Facsimile No.: [
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From:
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Facsimile No.:
Office of Liaison and International Affairs
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Subject: ^NORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY LOVE
ASSOCIATION(NAMBLA) USNCB #90-04-03250
REFERENCE YOUR FAX DATED 4/4/94.
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Special Handling Instructions:
I I THE ATTACHED IS IN RESPONSE TO
THE ABOVE REFERENCED FAX. THIS CASE IS A CLOSED MATTER.
THANKS.I
Approved:
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OP JUSTICE
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Rego Park, New York
November 12, 1982
ALL 1NFORA4ATION CONTAIMED
HEREIN ISUNPLASSIFliP
DATE
North American’ Man/Boy Love
Association (NAMBLA) , Post Office Box 174,
Midtown Station, New York 10018
Interstate Transportation of Obscene
Matter - Sexual Exploitation of Children
Information developed by the Brooklyn-Queens
Metropolitan Resident Agency (BQMRA) of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) , New York City (NYC) , New York (NY) Division,
has resulted in investigations being initiated into the
activities of captioned organization. These investigations are
based on violations of Title 18, United States Code, Sections
2251, 2252, and 2423, relating to the Sexual Exploitation of
Children Act of 1978.
The North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) is
composed of pederast/boy lovers who openly express their views
and attitudes in a monthly publication titled the "NAMBLA
Bulletin." The NAMBLA philosophy, as expressed in these
publications, reveal their attitude toward present state and
federal laws relating to sexual activity with children. From a
NAMBLA Bulletin was the following: "NAMBLA is an organization
founded in response to the extreme oppression of men and boys
involved in consensual sexual and other relationships with each
other. Its membership is open to all individuals sympathetic to
man/boy love in particular and sexual freedom in general. NAMBLA
is strongly opposed to age of consent laws and other restrictions
which deny adults and youth the full enjoyment of their bodies
and control over their lives. NAMBLA* s goal is to end the
long-standing oppression of men and boys involved in any mutually
consensual relationship by:
1. Building a support network for such men and boys.
2. Educating the public on the benevolent nature of
Man/Boy Love.
This document contains neither recommendations nor
conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI
and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are
not to l5e distributed outside your agency.
RE: NAMBLA
P.O. Box 174, Midtown Station,
New York, New York 10018
3. Cooperating with the lesbian, gay and other
movements for sexual liberation.
4. Supporting the liberation of persons of all ages
from sexual prejudice and oppression.
The NAMBLA Bulletin continues:
"We believe sex is good and wholesome. We support the
right of young people, as well as adults, to choose freely the
partner with whom they wish to share and enjoy their bodies. We
encourage and support young people in their rebellions against
the antisexual restrictions imposed upon them by adults-parents ,
police, moral crusaders, the church, the law, and the state. We
oppose age of consent laws and other legislation against the
freedom of youths."
A review of the NAMBLA Bulletins revealed references to
a NAMBLA Chapter in Toronto, Canada, present address unknown.
I I. a Steering Committe member in 1980, was
listed as a NAMBLA contact in Toronto.
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NAMBLA RESPONDS: ACTION
“Get the wild one.” and "We’l! kill you!” Si.
they dcpaned, iheir car was pdied with garbage.
The NA-MBLA group returned later lit the
week, along wiUi David Groat, himself recently
released from prison after a NAMBLA effort to
free him. Groat is no» working full-time for
NAMBLA as a volurrteer Eiefense Cororniiiee Co-
ordinator. As they arrived in Baldwin Harbor vhi-
second time. Groat, Fox and two others were pick-
ed up by local police. The police threatened them
with arrest while they ran a NCIC (federal crime
computer) check on them to sec if they could hold
them. Groat, Fox and the others were given sub-
poenas to appear at a local grand jury concerning
Swilhinbank that was to sit July 30 in Nassau
County. Police then accompanied them to Swith-
inbank’s house. It was obvious the bouse had been
vandalized. Many items had disappearcad, in-
cluding a stereo, a boat and other valuable per-
sonal items. Police summoned neighbors from
their houses to ask if they could identify any of the
men. Police then quickly departed and left an
angry mob of 15 to 20 adults to again threaten
Fox. Groat and the others. A few photographs
were taken for use in Gvy Community News but
the group was unable to do an inventory because
of danger from the local mob. They were again
chased and threatened as they left.
‘‘We were set up by the police,” Fox said. “One
policewoman told me we would be killed if police
left. Then they left! Our civil rights were clearly
violated. We must return to the bouse and secure
it and document the thefts so that Martm [Swiih-
inbank] can ftle claims. The house is stUJ open to
vandalism. “
Fox emphasized thar the mob consisted of
adults. “A group of teenagers on the comer were
quite friendly to us.”
On July 21, Brian Quimby of New Hampshire
(a NAMBLA member who is working on social-
science research projects related to man- boy love)
was called and questioned by local police at the
station. Police told him they had been given his
name by natioiuil police agencies. Quimby 's name
and PQ box number were listed in the most recent
NAMBLA BULLETIN which was among items
uken from Swithinbaitk's home,
On July 22. another New Hampshire NAMBLA
member, who is also a long-time leader of New
Hampshire’s most prominent gay organization,
was arrested and charged with 2 counts of
“felonious sexual assault” on a lA-ycaimld male.
Both the man and alleged “victim” had marched
together in the Boston and New York Gay Pride
Parades as pan of the NAMBLA contingents.
NAMBLA members in Michigan and California
also reported harassment from local police. On
July 23, John Sherman was arrested as he deplan-
ed at San Francisco’s airport and was returned to
New York. He faces a charge evidently related to
his friendship with Swilhinbank. Sherman is a
NAMBLA member who had alieiKled the emer-
gency steering committee meeting held to discuss
the arrest of Fox, Swiihinbartk, Ahlers and Ham-
milJ. It is assumed that some olbei arrests will be
made, including some in New Jersey and including
some oihcr NAMBLA members.
STOP PRESS!’!
According to the NY POST, Vong-dme Nassau
County detective, Dion Irizarri, 37. of Sooth
Fanningdale, was arrested and charged with steal-
ing a SCLcbannel cable TV' box duriug ibt massive
raid on (he home of Martin Swilhinbank.
NAMBLA takes an aggressive, activist stance.
wi(f seize the offensive. Some of the actions
which NAMBLA and its members will take to
counter these unconstitutional attacks, outiined
above, include these:
1) 'Hie cases of Fox, Martin, Ahlers. Haminill.
Sbertnan and the others arc very' weak. No por-
nography or prostitution is alleged. No coercion
or violence of any kind is alleged. The ages of boys
aiiegedly involved seems to be 12 to 18. (New York
law “protects' ' boys from the pleasures of sex un-
til their 18th birthday.) Many of the boys and their
parents are enraged at police and will not cooper -
ate. The relationships between the men and the
boys allegedly involved were long-standing, loving
and caring and were with permission of the par-
ents.
ACTION: NAMBLA engaged an attorney lo
represent Fox and Swilhinbank at early hearings
(cost; $700), NAMBLA has engaged an attorney
lo represent Swilhinbank t further hearings (cost;
$500). NAMBLA is considering further help for
Swilhinbank and any of the other men who re-
quest it, assuming that the men will raise as much
of the moitey as possible. NAMBLA 's coffers are
emprying quickly in this crisis. MORE MONEY
MUST BE RAISED IMivtEDIATELY. We need
THOUSANDS of dollars. Since we have nearly
500 members, some of whom earn reasonable
salaries, we appeal to our membership for money
for the Defense Fund. We assure the membership
that we will participate in the defense of these and
other men only if no coercion, violcrrcc or pornog-
raphy is involved IN OUR OPINION. We will
participate if the defense is an upfront defense
which will stand for pride in our life-style. We will
participate only if the defense attorneys are rea-
sonable in ihcir fees and pcliricaL’y .«yrnpaihetic to
our cause. Wc sucss that no final decision has
been made to aid the defense of these men beyond
their initial bearings.
2) The media and District Attorney of Nassau
County, and possibly other officiafs including
agents of the FBI, have made clearly libellous
suiemems about NAMBLA. They have lied.
There is no question of various inlerprclaiioru of
statements or facts, but of staiemems which are
wholly and clearly false and spoken with full
knowledge of their falsity. NAMBLA has never at
any time been involved in illegal activities.
NAMBLA has not sponsored any sexual or porno-
graphic activity whatsoever, nor has such activity
occurred as a result of - contacts made at
NAMBLA meetings.
ACTION: NAMBLA has, therefore, engaged
New Y Oirk attorney Michael L-avery to sue several
newspapers and TV stations, the District Attorney
of Nassau County and other officials (including
possibly FBI agents) for LIBEL.
3) The police, and possibly the FBI. have violat-
ed the civil rights of the men arrested, of other
NAMBLA members, and of NAMBLA as an or-
ganization. Aneinpts to obtain our mailiug lists
are clearly ili^al. The harajsstnem of Brian Quim-
by of New Hampshire and other NAMBLA mem-
ben in other parts of the country is totally uncon-
stitutional. The police treatment of Jerry Fox,
David Groat and others who visited the Swithin-
bank house after the arrests were violations of
their civil rights, in particular the set-up by police
of the dangerous mob atuck at the house. Media
bear responsibility for this mob violence also.
ACTION: The NAMBLA attorney will pursue
legal action concerning these civil rights viola-
tions, including possible civil and criminal prose-
cutions.
4) The primary purpose of this massive FBI-
police attack on N,\MBL.A has been to smea:
NAMBLA, to divide its membership and lo ,sep;<f-
ai< gay and other groups from supponinp
NAMBLA.
ACTION: NAMBLA calls on all members to
remain active, to report any harassmem directly to
our hot-line phone number (see below), and to
send immediately membership renewals and other
contributions. NAMBLA has written an “Open
Letter to The Gay Community” rcque.sung sup
port. Wc hope this will be published in every gay
publication. NAMBLA is calling on gay organiza-
tions and individuals as well as straight progres-
sive and civil libenies groups to sign a statement of
support for NAMBLA against FBI and oihet po-
lice harassment. Wc ask them to join in a coalition
to protect the civil liberties of NAMBLA and its
memben. NAMBLA plans rallies and demonsira-
tions to make public our protest and show the sup-
port from other groups.
5) The FBI and police arc helpless unless we co-
operate wnih them,
ACTION: Wc call on all NAMBLA members to
follow the suggestions in the article “ Wbai To Do
If The FBI Calls.” The best policy is to refuse to
»ay ANYTHING beyond name and address to any
police or FBI agent. That is your right. As a man-
boy lover, it is your duty. Boys should aJ.so be
reminded that they do not need to speak to police
or FBI. Most Americans believe they .MUST talk
to police. Boys have the righr lO jcmair: s;Jcn:.
boys are pressured by police and parents into mak-
ing initial statements, they have ihe right to refuse
to testify and they can remain silent. Even if they
have made statements to a Grand Jury, they have
the right to remain silent. Such boys need an at-
torney of their own and are entitled to one. Men
who arc accused of sex with boys have every right
to talk with those boys and their parents — and
their attorneys should talk with the boys as soon
as possible. Talking with a wjine.ss is not forbid-
den, so long as no one implies, threatens or direct-
ly suggests that a boy should lie or remain silent.
Rather, boys can and should be reminded of their
right to an attorney and their right to remain
silent. In some cases, attorneys car, help boys be
removed from the homes of .hostile parents who
arc cooperating with police.
6) The boys are the ones most harmed by (he
raids, interrogations, police threats and trials.
ACTION: We must prepare boys and. when
possible, their paicms for these traumas. We must
be more careful in our own judgments on other
wdse simple matters (telephone calls, use o;
alcohol, marijuana, leaving boys alone at home
neglecting relationships). One boy close to the a:
rest of 3 NAMBLA member was found erving out
side the man’s house. “Now I’D have to preien-
I’m straight, no matter how 1 feel inside. Bein
gay is too dangerous.’* We must better shield bo,\
from the ugly assaults and traumas. Being prou
and gay docs not mean using poor judgment or h'
I'ng indiscreet,
CONTACT:
NAMBLA
PO BOX 174 Midtown Statio
NYC, NY 10018
(212) 475-0987
NAMBLA NEWS FAIX mi
3
NAMBLA ARRESTS: THE FACTS
Our first need is to share correct information
and combat rumon,. The following is a summary
of the facts in the FBI and media campaigns to
slander and destroy NAMBLA and its members.
In the late evening of July 11 . 1981. more than
30 pob'ce from the FBI and 8 dty, county and state
law agencies broke through the locked doors of a
cottage in Baldwin Harbor, Long Island.
With guns drawn and flash cubes ablaze, they
smashed furniture and seized 4 persons who were
quietly watching TV. They arrested two
NAMBLA steering committee members, Jerry
Fox and Martin Swiihinbank. They also seized 2
thirteen-year-old boys whom they held by force
and inienogated throughout the night. The men
were also quesuoned from 1 1 PM until about 6:30
AM the following rooming. Fox was questioned
only by police, while SwTthinbank was interrogat-
ed by police and by teams of FBI officers who
rotated in 2-hour shifts.
Meanwhile, in upstate New York, 2 other men
-— Karl AhJers and Hugh Hammill — were simi-
larly attacked by police and FBI as they sat talking
with 5 boys, their mother, father, grandfather and
an elderly aunt. They were playing whist as the
police made the airesu. These boys were taken
and questioned by police for 5 hours. Protests by
the parents were ignored. One boy fainted. De-
spite intimidation and heavy-handed police tac-
tics, the boys provided the police with little or no
information. The two men were charged with pos-
session of a small amount of marijuana and pos-
session of an allegedly stolen check. The ACLU is
considering representing the boys and their family
on c.ha.'’ges nyainsi the police. The boys continue
to live with one of the charged men with the per-
mission of the parents.
Jerry Fox was charged with one count of 2nd
degree sexual abuse. This is a misdemeanor in
New York and generally refers to fondling. The
boy involved is the 13-ycar-old seized with Fox the
night of the arrests. This nusdemeanor charge car-
ries a maximum penalty of one year in prison and
a $1000 fine.
Swithinbank was charged with a so-called Class
D sexual felony, sodomy with a person over 1 1 but
under 16. The person was not identified in the
warrant and was evidently not the boy present at
the lime of the raid.
All the men except Swithinbank were held until
the next morning on $5000 cash bail. This is an ex-
ceptionally high bail for the charges involved.
Swithinbank was held on a $100,000 cash bail.
Swiihinbank and Fox were represented at a bail
reduction hearing on July 13 by Atty. Ted Pinto
who was engaged by NAMBLA. Bail was not re-
duced. All but Swiihinbank were able to raise bail.
Only Swithinbank remains in the Nassau County
Jail where he has been subjected to extreme
harassment by officials and threau from fdlow
prisoners. Swithinbank has been denied access to
pen and paper, which is normally supplied to all
prisoners. Swithinbank is the only one of the four
to have been ancsted previously. He spent 1977 in
jail on a charge of Class D sodomy. Ironically,
during his previous incarceration, Swiihinbank
built a prison library for which he received a com-
mendation from Nassau County officials.
The true purpose of the raids became evident in
the media and during the all-night interrogation
sessions. Newspapers — including the New York
Daily News, The New York Post, and Newsday —
blared uniformly sensational and inaccurate head-
lines; SEX RING smashed. SEIZE 4 IN L.l.
"MAN-BOY” SEX RING. (An indication of
some kind of inadvertent progress was use by the
media of the phrase "man-boy” rather than "kid-
dies,” “children,” or “young boys.”)
News accounts, including TV — stated that
NAMBLA was itself a “sex ring”! Nassau County
District Attorney Denis Dillon said the men were
“members of . . . The North American Man-Boy
Love Association that specialized in ‘sexual ex-
ploitation of young boys'.”
Dillon identified NAMBLA as a group "with
the announced purpose of breaking down barriers
of sex taboos between men and boys,” and as an
organization dedicated to eradicating the "ex-
treme oppression” of men and boys involved in
such rdationships. He and others were also
quoted as saying that the ma arrested had met the
boys at NAMBLA meetings where Uiey also ex-
changed and sold pornographic films. Dillon also
said that boys were transported across state boun-
daries to NAMBLA meecings for "immoral pur-
poses.” Police said "huge quantities” of
NAMBLA literature were seized at the Swithin-
bank home, that names of NAMBLA officers
were found in the Uieraiurc, and that "more ar-
rests are promised.” One official made the usual
comment that ail this was only "the tip of the
iceberg.”
The literature referred to consisted of
NAMBLA brochures which have been mailed to
churches, political and gay groups. They have also
been distributed at Gay Pride marches. There
could not have been many brochures in Swithin-
bank's home since they arc in scarce supply and
only a few were given to each steering committee
member.
The media also played up the child pornography
angle, stating that "... boys were brought on
numerous occasions to (Swithinbank 's home
under NAMBLA. auspices) where they were intro-
duced to middle-aged men who sodomized and
sexually-abused them while videotape cameras re-
corded the action. Some 300 videotapes were seiz-
ed along with 50 reels of 8 mm film ...” (A/ewr).
Other reports insisted that the videotapes and/or
films were all “hard-core child pornography.”
The implication was that child pornography was
made by Swithinbank and others under auspices
of NAJ^BLA.
Swithinbank has told NAMBLA members there
was not a single videotape of a sexual nature, that
only one or two tapes included some fuUy-clothed
boys in non-sexuaJ situatioDS. He said most of the
tapes were full-length classic films, including King
Kong, Barnbi and Snow fVhite. The press officer
for the Nassau D.A., Mr. Grilley, later admitted
to The Cay Community News (Boston) that the
D.A.’s office knew there were no pornographic
videotapes. At most, a few of the g nun films may
have had sexual content, but these films were
more than 10 years old and had been purchased
legally over-the-counter in stores in New York
City. None of these 8 mm films had been made by
Swithinbank or by anyone known to him. The
porno issue was obviously a red herring from the
start, used as pan of the press campaign to smear
NAMBLA and inflame popular passions against
the men arrested.
The report of NAMBLA involvement was like-
wise totally false. Swithinbank had not been cen-
trally involved in NAMBLA. At no time have
NAMBLA meetings been used to exchange por-
nography, information about boys or to transport
boys (or men) across state lines for “immoral" or
other purposes. NAMBLA has been scrupulous in
these matters and has conducted meetings and
social events steely in accordance with our pur-
poses; to provide legal and other help for men and
boys involved in inter-age relationships; to do
educational and research work; and to work in the
legal and political spheres for changes in op-
pressive laws.
NAMBLA has taken positions on the age of
consent, on imprisonment of men for non-coerc-
ivc homosexual activity, on the military draft and
on U.S. imperialism in El Salvador and elsewhere.
NAMBLA contingents marched in demonstra-
tions in Washington, New York and Boston. We
have been a presence in all recent Gay Pride
celebrations. All NAMBLA'i activiiici have been
open. Nothing has been done in secret.
Distorted news accounts said that "a dozen." or
"a score” of boys "age 8 to 15” were involved in-
the alleged "sex ritig,”
Swithinbank says that he knows about 8 boys
who are now between the ages of 12 and 18. He
has known all of these boys for 2 to 4 years and he
knows their parents as well. The day before the
raid on his home, he participated in the Junior
High School graduation celebration for one of the
boys. All sources indicate that no prostitution or
coercion of any sort is alleged. Several of these
boys continue to stay at the home of one of the ar-
rested men, along with adult members of the fami-
ly. Several of the boys and their parents ha%e
indicated total support for the men and have made
dear their anger about police and FBI harassment.
While in police custody. Swithinbank and Fo.\
were questioned repeatedly about N.^MBL.-^.
Swithinbank said the FBI agents seemed to believe
that NAMBLA was a cover for a massive illegal
crimioal corispiracy to produce and distribute por-
nography as well as to transpon boys inter-state
for prostitution. The FBI urged him to volunteer
such information in exchange for promises of his
release. Swithinbank told NAMBLA: "They pro-
mised me the moon if I would simph. cooperate in
giving information about other men and
NAMBLA."
Jerry Fox commented: " I ney seemed to think i
had all this information about other men, which I
certainly don’t have.”
At one point, police thumbed through a card
file to provide a NAMBLA member’s phone
number for Swiihinbank to call for help. "We
know all about NAMBLA,” they told him. .A
number of NAMBLA steering committee mem-
bers were mentioned by name during the lengthy
police interrogation. These names were mentioned
just in a general context, not with reference to any
specific acts.
The media reported that the FBI and other
agencies had had Swithinbank ’s house and other
locations under surveillance for at least 4 months.
Swithinbank said police told him they had taken
videotapes round-the-clock and they had photos
of men going in and out of his home, including
some NAMBLA members. Police told the media
they had spent nearly a million dollars on this
probe, which they had dubbed "Operation
Hawk.” Agents said they had rented the house
right next door to Swithinbank’s home in order to
carry out their secret spying.
The FBI asked Swiihinbank for NaMBL.A
membership lists and financial information in ex-
change for a deal. Swithinbank commented that
he could not supply such information even if he
were willing, which he was not. None of the ar-
rested men had access to membership list,-. oi
organizational files.
Since the arrests of men in New York,
NAMBLA and NAMBLA members have contin-
ued to be harassed. Swithinbank asked Fox and
several other NAMBLA members to return to his
home in order to secure it against theft. (Police
had left the home open and unguarded.) Hi- al.so
gave Fox power of attorney to sell his belongings
in order to get cash for his defense.
When Fox and other NAMBLA members re-
lumed to the Baldwin Harbor house, they were
met by a group of adult neighbors. The house w as
located in a lower-middlc-class area. The group
quickly became hostile; they threatened them,
shouted obsceitilies and threw rocks and eggs at
the NAMBLA members. The mob screamed:
Contlnu«d on Pape 4
2
NAMBUi NXW5 TAIX IJt}
OomlnuwJ from P»o« 1
tsiand, SM^Uhinbank was chargad with on«
count of “cJass 0" felonious sodomy on
an unnamed boy “over tl and under 16,”
not named. Fox was char'ged with second-
degree sexual assault, which usually
refers to fondling, on an unr\amed boy over
11 end under 16. All the men except
SwithinbanK were held under ^,000 cash
bail. SwithinbanK’s bait was $100,000
cash! Even the $5,000 is exceptionally
high for the misdemeanor charges involv-
ed, but the $100,000 is unheard of.
NAMBLA was called by Fox and Swithin
bank and provided $700 to Alty. Ted Finto
who represented the two men at arraign-
ment and a bail reduction hearing. The
judge refused to reduce bail.
3. District Attorney Denis Dillon of Nassau
County and other police and county offi-
cials reportedly told the media frv sta-
tions, New York Daf/y News, N.Y. Post, and
Newstjay) that the men were NAMBLA
'‘officials.” that “large quantities of
NAMBLA materials were seized,” that
NAMBLA is an orgartization “specializing
in sexual exploitation of children,” and
that the FBI was cooperating In “smashing
a huge rtation-wide marvboy sex ring.*'
They also told the media that Martin and
Fox met boys “under the auspices of
NAMBLA” and exchanged pornography
(including sales) at NAMBLA meetings.
NAMBLA categorically denies all these ac-
cusations. Media also reported 300 por-
nographic video tapes plus 50 por-
nographic films which allegedly showed
boys and men in sex acts, allegedly filmed
by Martin. Later, the Nassau County D.A.
ottice said the video tapes were harmless
tapes of movies like Bambi, and that they
found no evidence of pornography being
made. Nc pornography charges were
made. There was no allegation of prostitu-
tion, coercion or violence. The media said
“a dozen” or “a score” of boys, aged 8-15
were involved. Swithinbank told NAMBLA
members that he only knew 8 boys, all of
whom had been friends for years, that he
knew their families well, and that the ages
of boys who had been questiorred by
police were 12-1 8.
4. Swithinbank and Fox report they were
questioned repeatedly for hours about
NAMBLA. Swithinbank said he was "offer-
ed the moon" and his freedom If he would
provide information about NAMBLA,
especially NAMBLA membership lists and
organizational (lies. He commented that
he does not have access to these in any
case. Police and FBI questioned him about
several men, Including NAMBLA mem-
bers. and promised “many more arrests.”
5. Between July 20 and 22, several NAMBLA
members in California, Pennsylvania,
Michigan and New Hampshire were ques-
tioned by police — not about specific boys
or allegations of sex or pornography, but
simply about their NAMBLA membership.
Brian Quimby in New Hampshire had pub-
lished his name and box number In a
NAMBLA Builetlrt, requesting assistance
In a research prtHect. New Hampshire
police questioned him about his NAMBLA
membership arxf told him they had infor-
mation he was the local representative of a
child rrwtesting group.
6. On July 22, a NAMBLA rrrember was ar-
rested ori two counts of “felonious sexual
assault” on a 14-year-old boy who had
been hJs friend (with family permission) for
some time. Both the rrtan and the boy had
marched In the NAMBLA conttngent at gay
pride parades in Bostor* and New York,
7. On July 23, John Sherman was arrested as
he left a plane In California for a vacatior>
and was returned to New York on unapeci-
fled “sex charges.” Sherman is a friend of
Swithinbank, a NAMBLA member, and had
attended the emergency meeting of the
NAMBLA Steering Committee which con-
sidered the origirtal arrests,
8. On the basis of interrogation of Fox,
Swithinbank and others, a number of other
arrests of NAMBLA members and other
Individuals was expected.
9. NAMBLA, at its July 18 Steering Commit-
tee meeeting, took the following steps:
1. Committed funds for the defense of
Martin, Fox and the other men (If request-
ed) during the Initial hearings only, began
a search for radical gay or straight civil
liberties lawyers to defend the men;
appointed a committee to investigate the
charges arrd ascertain that pornograptiy.
prostitution and coercion were NOT in-
volved; took Steps to give the arrested men
emotional and other support.
2. Engaged Atty. Michael La very to sue
media, the District Attorney ol Nassau
Courvty and the FBI for libel and civil rights
violations.
3. Sought to establish a broad coalition ol
gay and straight groups to support the civil
rights of NAMBLA and the men arrested:
this included a letter to the mernbersnip.
an open letter to the gay community, ana a
petition of support.
4. David Groat became full-time voluntary
Defense Fund Coordinator, to coordinate
all these activities. $70 per week expenses
were voted.
5. The membership would be appriseo ol
its rights and the proper way of dealing
with FBI, Grand Juries and other legal offi-
cers.
(fRfiuAPrX mi
Know your rights: You don 't have to talk
When the FBI comes knocking
•) aukLXS T. WJMEl
NAMBLA NEWS )f5 Copyright © by
The North -American Man-Boy Love Association,
Faii 1981
NAMBLA NEWS
FBI & POLICE CAMPAIGNS AGAINST NAMBLA
Th*M are photo* ot th« chaos and vafxlahsm done oy attacitmc
local and fadaml polica during the raid on Martin Swithirvbank's
home In Baldwin Hart>or, 11 July 1981. After all paraona wore re-
moved from the house. poHc*- failed to eecure the property. Nefffh-
bor*. ervcouraged by police, looted the premiaes. A tew days later, a
iocaJ cop was arrested and charged with stealing Swithinbank’s
50-channal ceble receiver for his TV.
We all knew it would occur sometime. With Reagan in the midoie and the (im)Moral
Majority loose in the streets, NAMBLA became lair and (they hoped) easy game. Man-boy
lovers in the United States now lace their greatest challenge. Wilt an all-out attack on us
send us scampering back to closets and other hiding places? Will illegal and wholesale
arrests and sensational yellow journalism panic us? In the past, such tactics were
immediately successful. The fleffer Life Journal, the Greek Love Association and other
predecessors of NAMBLA were literally destroyed through witchhurns and guilt by
^ssoniatinn. In Encl^md. PIE has not yet recovered from the atrocious and barbaric
conspiracy trials and the prison term for Tom O'Carrois. Now n is oui iur.i.
It IS now Obvious that NAMBLA is under a massive FBI and police attack, nationwide.
The attaci* is ti.m.ilsr to those unoenaken oy tr^e FBI against such diverse groups as the
Socialist Workers' Party, the Church of Scientology, the Black Panthers S the National
Lawyers' Guild. But we should not assume that we are under attack simply because
NAMBLA has been stridently political. Police crashing through doors with guns drawn;
slanderous and false accusations of wild and immense sex rings; whipping up public
hysteria through witchhunts: all ol this Is not new to man-boy lovers. These have been the
terror tactics used against us for decades in the United States. Thousands of men are now-
in prison because ol such gestapo methods, and hundreds of men and boys have commit-
ted suicide over the years because of the hysteria they generate. For those of us who love
boys — and for the boys we k>ve — the United States might as welt be Nazi Germany. Our
rights are scarcely more protected here than the rights of Jews in the Third Reich.
NAMBLA has not brought on this oppression (as some wilt say in their rush to get off
board). In fact, NAMBLA was born out of exactly such a campaign in the "Revere Sex Ring"
cases in Massachusetts. There was no sex ring, and NAMBLA's predecessor organization,
the Boston-Boise Committee, was successful in rallying many lesbian, gay & straight
organizations to support the civil rights of men falsely accused. All bul one of the men (out
of 24) was kept out of prison because of the activist response.
We will win this battle, too. if we stand together. Not one man need go to prison if we
remain united and vigilant. The temptation is great to run and hide, to fiee NAMBLA like a
ship shot down in bailie. Thai would not only be morally wrong and cowardly, however. It
would be individually ar>d politically stupid. The FBI and other authorities have launched
the raids for precisely that purpose: to divide and scatter man-boy lovers who are organiz-
ing, f( we stand together, assen our rights and refuse to panic, we can turn Ihe FBI attack
around, just as we did in the Revere cases. The District Attorney who launched the Revere
sex scandal was turned out of office fargely because of a gay and civil tibertres backlash to
his rvandling of those cases. We can do the same to the FBI, FBI and police have spent a
million dollars or more of the public’s money going after what appear to be relatively few
and minor charges of men having sex with teenaged boys. Their charges of links to
NAMBLA lack all credibility and can be easily exposed. They have wasted this money at a
lime when public services everywhere are being cut. The Nassau County Jail, where
NAMBLA Steering Committee member Martin Swithinbank is held under the outrageous
$100,000 bail, is notoriously overcrowded and under a court order to reduce its population.
On the day of the publicity about the raids, the New York Post carried a story about the
murder of 15 babies in the New York area which had gone unsolved because of lack of
funds for proper police investigation! Another story told of massive cuts in the anti-rape
squad which made it difficult to investigate genuine (heterosexual) rapes. The million-
dollar invasion of our civil rights has netted so far extremely minimal charges.
There IS no massive boy-sex ring. There IS no child pornography empire. They simply
dc no: exist. NAMBLA is a completely legal and above-board organization and the FBI ana
other authorities know that. For all their video tapes and around-the-clock cloak-and-
dagger routines, Ihe FBI & police have next to nothing! If we stand strong, they are the
ones who wilt lose out. NAMBLA and our members whose rights have been violated will be
vindicated:
BRIEF SUMMARY
OF EVENTS:
I.On July 11, two raids took place in New
York: one upstate and one in Baldwin Har-
bor, Lorrg Island. Four men were arrested,
including two NAMBLA steering commit-
tee members: Jarr^ Fox and Martin Switn-
inbank. Fox is a professor of social won-..
Swithinbank is an author and currently is
engaged in legal video work. The raids in-
volved over 30 FBI and other police from S
agencies and came after at least four mon-
ths of "24-hour surveillance by video" of
Swithinbank and other men at several lo-
cations. The raids were violent: doors were
broken down, furniture smashed, the car
of one arrested man was inexplicably dam-
aged by police, two 13-year-old boys were
man-handled, guns were drawn.
2. The men and boys were interrogated- all
night, for as many as eight hours straight,
without a lawyer present. Despite this, the
boys evidently gave no information to po-
lice and the men were not charged with
sex with these boys. In the upstate raid,
the parents of the boys were also present,
i.jpstate, the only charges were the pos-
session of a small amount of marijuana
and an allegedly stolen check. On Long
Continueo on Page ?
15
LOVE LETTER FROM A BOY (NOW A MAN AND A LOVER OF
NAMBLA NEWS FALL Mil
BOYS HIMSELF) TO A MAN HE USED
Dew Rev.
These days ! am ioto reladomhips across the
feacrauoQS (as wdJ as viUus them) . [ vn now .
and guess that woold malce you is your late fifties
or so. Why sbouid 1 remember such a detail?
Because at age 14 or so, 1 was in k>ve vlih you. A
boyhood crush like so many others? No doubt.
But that lendcT age, with its tbriUing discoveries, is
one that so many years later has retained a speciaJ
iDtensiry. I mysdf am now past 35. and 1 under-
stand better what those teenage sdrrings were, and
what they might have become.
I have learned this not so much by looking deep
— or not so deep — into myself, but by seeing my-
self reflected in the eyes and experiences of othen.
Some of these “others” are boys. In many ways,
certainly, I must represent to them some of the
same things that you represented to me, at least on
the Platonic side. Yet you, whom I loved, re-
mained the Untouchable Object of my sexual
fantasies. When I masturbated — which 1 con-
fessed to you was my favoriw sin — it was often of
you that I fantasized.
It is not my aim to recount for you my life of the
past quarter century. So the picture you will get
will be askew. Bui it is precisely that skewed aspea
that fascinates me the most. And you? If you are
unable to go beyond the framework of biblical
reprimand (“Tbou shall not. . .”), you may even
wince at my words. (1 hope not.) Yet if you are
able to resurrect a bit of the sentiment — which to
me appears crystalline and pure — that attended
our friendship, your reaction will be more expan-
sive. You may even greet my words with humor,
as well as appreciation. (1 hope so.) For they are
meant with kindness, special words that have lain
silent all these years waiting to be said.
I have been an atheist for almost twenty years.
So I find it amusing to see myself, under no
external compulsion, volunteering a confession.
My memories of you are almost completely
taken up with moments of intimacy and sharing.
For me both then and now, these were the
moments of greatest sensuality, and frustrated
sexuality.
Oddly, the moment that seems most intense
now was the one least associated with sexual
desire. I was sitting alone in the middle section
near the front of the church (1 think ] could still
find the seat) during an evening prayer session. It
was a mellow one, which encouraged solitary
meditation. You came into the row 1 alone occu-
pied, and sat down next to roe. I still shiver when 1
thunk of your putting your arm around me. and
caressing me on the arm and shoulder. 1 felt that
you loved me and cared for me. But to have you
caress me seemed like endless ecstasy. What got
me most was that wonderful sense of giving mysdf
to another, of being possessed, of being puny in
your bands — you who were tall, dark, and hand-
some, with a rich, full, musical man’s voice and
naturally wavy hair.
I don’t remember having a hard-on, but 1
imagine I did. So many impressions collided in my
head — friend, counselor, faiber figure, big
brother, one who stirred special male feelings and
promises of greata thrill, one who possessed the
hidden symbol of this special attraction between
males; yet at the same time, sinfnl. perilous,
impossible. 1 found myself u the foot of the
bridge, but unable to cross it.
1 believe I tried, though. After all. I was having
sex frequently with other boys (including one boy
in the church), and fooled around, as they said,
whh others. It was a virtual obsession to fantasize
about sex with boys, and men. Of course, all this
innocent sexuality got the guilt trip laid on it by
Christianity. But 1 often wonder^ If you were
thinking the same thing I was thinking when the
congregation sang ”1 k>ve him, I love him, be-
cause be first loved me.” When I sang it, I was
often thinking about you. If me could sing this
thinking of Jesus, bow much further afveid was it
for me to fantasize you in his stead?
1 was in the from seat of yom car, the bhw-and-
wfahe Pondac. You were driving. A couple of
ether boys were in the back, Instead of sitting hy
the door. I sat dose enough to you — the way girls
did with their boyfriends — to be able to rub iny
knee against your fooefeet teg. You did nothing to
discourage me from this rather unsubtle declara-
tion. This time I had a hard-on. Frankly, Tm a
little surprised that you never responded. 1 cannot
describe adequately the thrill 1 felt at being able to
expert tny affeaion for you in a physical way. 1
must have resolved in my head that this particular
sin would be benign, even beneficial, because it
was so beautiful and felt so good. Perhaps 1
wasn’t as biatani as 1 think 1 was. Eventually. 1
transferred many of these masculine feelings onto
other boyfriends. But 1 retained my sexual desire
for you for a very long time. After so many years,
the memory of it is still strong.
The closest we ever came to making love was
when we slept together at the home of some
church member at a statewide Fellowship Meeting
in Little Falls. As 1 recall, we lay awake talking
about religion (what else?). The next morning,
you fold me you had awakened during the night
and discovered my head on your shoulder. You
seemed pleased — as I was. i thought, how smari
of me that my desires should follow their natural
inclination even during sleep. But was my hand on
your crotch? I doubt it. Yet, to touch and discover
fhaf was whai I desired above all. J didn’t expect
so much from you, but wanted only to express my
affection. This overnight experience meant some-
thing special to both of us.
One more experience needs to be exorcized. At
one of my intense prayer sessions, at the altar
following a service, you came over and began to
counsel me. I asked you what “petting” was. 1
also brought up masturbation. I gave rather
detailed acocrunts of my orgasm, location of the
event, and so forth. I remember telling you about
beating off in the bathtub, and crediting god with
the fact that no semen came out during my
orgasm. You were the only adult with whom 1
could conceive of discussing such matters, and it
was reassuring to me that you listened. But this
time at the altar, for some reason you yourself
became spedfic. You warned me about men on
Hennepin Avenue in Minneapolis (the threat of
the Big City was still several years off) who might
offer me 3(K if I’d let them suck me off in some
bathroom. (Even for the fifties, that seems
.awfully cheap!) Such men, you said, were known
as “cocksuckers,” You were the first person to
introduce me to that word u beins anything more
than an epithet. A pity, I've ofteo thought, that
you didn’t also introduce me to the activity. When
I got a bit older, h occurred to me that perhaps
you were trying to test me, to see what my reaction
would be. I have carried around a load of guilt
and sdf-hatied because of my benighted response
to your revelation; "They actually do that? How
disgusting!’* You see, I hadn’t yet discovered the
joys of oral sex. My foolish response was based on
innocent ignorance — and, after all, how could I,
a good Chiistian, let my beloved pastor know
about ail my tins, such as roy sexual activity with
boys? Especially since I yearned to commit lite
same sins with him. Besides, my revulsion was less
for the act itsdf (which I’m sure I would have
found delightful with you) than for the commer-
cial and uwdry anon>Tniiy in your description of
it. Still, I couldn’t imagine myself actually doing
such a thing.
The faa that a man might find a boy sexuaJl\-
appealing has never surprised or revolted me. Not
then, not now. In fact, it is quite easy to under-
stand. And even when there is no sex at all, a.<-
thcrc was no; in our friendship, such a friendship
nevertheless has a highly charged erotic com-
ponent.
I wonder if you remember that March day in
your study, when I was around 16, and was in the
process of breaking away from the Pentecostal
church because of what seemed to me to be its
cxiraor dinary truerference in personal life. My
theology and convictions had not changed, 1 re-
mained a near mystical Christian, 1 have thought
back often on that moving, yet tense meeting
when 1 told you I planned to quit the church. It
ended with a prediction by you that caused me
great pain, as though a special — because un-
spoken — bond had been broken. You predicted
thai ] would end up everynhing “but a bum on
skid row.” I replied that we would have a date, ten
years from now, to see if your prediction came
true. 1 wrote myself a memo lo this effect. Some-
where in my suitcase full of baggage from the past
1 have that memo still. When the tenth anniversary
of that encounter arrived, I let it pass. I couldn’t
see any point in remembering it..
Perhaps you have regretted saying what you
did. I don’t hold it against you. But 1 have never
forgotten it. In retrospect. 1 think 1 was stupid not
to have kept that appointment. It is not at all my
intention to challenge the distances that grow with
time. But 1 do wami to say to to you what perhaps
no other man has said: You remain for me one of
the Influential and important persons in my self-
discovery. You may not welcome this acknow-
ledgement. You may remain indifferent to it, find-
ing no chord able to respond to it. Perhaps you are
ever offended: “By what right does he dredge up
such ancient trivia?” By what right, indeed. But at
the same time, I need to let you know that you
have meant more lo me than you could have
imagined. I want you to know that my apprecia-
tion and affection for you have outlasted that rup-
ture in your study.
I saw you last in the sixties. You sang in the
choir at a Bible College graduation ceremony that
1 anended. You may not have noticed me. I did
not take my eyes off you the whole time. Surely
you had no idea what was running through my
bead. I did a lot of reliving during that service,
and can mnember nothing else about it. But 1
experienced a binemess that I no longer feel. 1
wanted to talk with you, to shake your hand. But 1
couldn’t bear the thought of small talk with you
either. I hope you’ll forgive roe for that, and
excuse the effrontery of my letter.
I wish you, and those you hold dear, the best.
David Thorsud
16
N.<MBL.A. NE^ S FALL 1981
THE AGE OF CONSENT FROM STATE TO STATE
This is a very brief summarj'. It is limited to situations in which there is no force,
threat, mental incompetence or incapacity, etc., yet an offense results in spile of
mutual freely given consent, and no matter how earnestly the parties desired the
activity. These are sexual offenses against persons below a certain age. Consent is
immaterial, but the rationale is youthful incapacity to give consent. In New York
lack of consent is required, but a person below 17 years of age is “deemed incapable
of consent.”
NAMBLA NXWS FALL 3Wl
21
MARK TWAIN ON
CHILD VICTIMIZATION
In 1905, a campaign succeeded to exclude
Tom Sawyer and T/te A(Tventures of Hucklo-
6erry Finn from the children’s reading room
of the Brooklyn Public Library. They were
condemned as "bad examples” for youth —
what would now be called in psycho-babble
"inappropriate youth role models."
When asked his reaction to this bit of blue-
nosi ng. Twain was typically direct;
"I wrote Tom Sawyer and Muck Finn for
adults exclusively, and it aiways distresses
me when I find that boys and girls have been
allowed access to them. The mind that be-
comes soiled in youth can never again be
washed clean. I know this by my own experi-
ence, & to this day I cherish an unappeasable
bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of
my young life, who not only permitted but
compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible
through before i was 15 years old. None can
do that ar>d ever draw a clean sweet breath
again."
nant nostalgia” in the classic novels of Mark
Twain and Booth Tarkington. Bogus literary anal-
ysis aside (has Janus every really read Huckleberry
Finnl), whai the doctor is prescribing is total re-
pression of children’s sexuality (he fails to realize
that children’s sexuality is a cornerstone of Freud-
ian theory). Because of the "sexual revolution” (a
lenn he seems to have picked up from Time maga-
zine) children have become of age too quickly and
this has caused a national epidemic of child rape,
incest, drug abuse, kiddy pom, and massive rings
of child prostitution.
There is so much that is dearly wrong with the
book it’s hard to know where to begin. First of all
there is a slight bibliography, but almost no way to
double check sources quoted in the text. Janus
doesn’t use footnotes. He employs asterisks to in-
dicate that a source is mentioned in his bibliogra-
phy. This totally invalidates the book as scientific,
or even helpful. Much of the material is taken
from Janus’ own casebooks. Oddly all the voices
of the children he quotes sound the same, and of
course there is no way to check the truth. Every
now and then he will toss out some figures (like
3<X).000 children have been forced to make kiddy
porn). Generally there arc no sources, or when
there are they turn out to be police or FBI sta-
tistics, hardly an unbiased reference.
Aside from Janus’ own casebooks he relies a
great deal upon both Judianne Densen-Gerber and
Det. Lloyd Martin. Anyone familiar with the his-
tories of these two “expens” is more than fully
aware of their total unreliability and careers of
self-promotion. Densen-Gerber wrote the intro-
duction to the book. And it is not just pro-pedo-
philes who have exposed Martin and Densen-
Gerber. Hew York Magazine {19 Nov ’79) unveil-
ed the Densen-Gerber Odyssey House scam. To
present these two professional anti-pedophiles as
uncritically, and reverently as Janus does bespeaks
not only his biases, but also the fact that he makes
no pretense to a scientific, or fair-minded study.
Of course fair-mindedness is hardly Janus’s
game. When he covers the Revere Case his facts
arc so totally off-the-wall, so totally differeni
from even the biased mainstream reporting, that
they can be seen as nothing more than blatant ties.
Revere, Janus phantasizes, was only a "branch”
of a ’^national network of child prostitution” that
was located in Houston. Texas, that could deliver
"chickens” anywhere in the country within half
an hour; better than Western Union. Readers
unfamiliar with this material should read The
Boston Sex Scandal by Mitzel (Glad Day Books,
Boston). Both Janus and Densen-Gerber mention
NAMBLA, and needless to say it is neither com-
plimentary nor accurate.
NEW & IMPORTANT
The Age Taboo
edited by Dan Tsang
AlysoD Publications
PO Box 2783 Dept. B-5
Boston, MA 02208
S5.95
(available in October, 1981)
Includes numerous essays and documents
from the U.S. &. Britain from various per-
spectives — boy -lovers, boys, feminists,
leftists — in the ongoing debate over
issues involved about man /boy love and
progressive movements. Ver> importani
collection of primary documents. The
Hrst of its kind book in the English
language.
With all these gross lies and mistakes there is
still another aspect of The Death of Innocence
that is even worse. Throughout the book Janus is
very careful to make alliances with some gay and
feminist writers. He implies that while these
"good” gays and women are against pedophilia
(which is after all nothing but “rape, prostitution
and pornography”) there is a fringe out there who
arc not "good.” By ignoring the const ruciivc
arguments and discussions that have occurred in
the gay press about boy-love, Janus is able to state
that most gays are appalled by the idea — except,
of course, for the crazxd NAMBLA fringe. He
even goes so far to misrepresent Margaret Mead
and implies that she blamed women’s liberation
for an mcrcasc in incest. (Janus gets his quote
from an article in the New York Daily News and
not from anything that Mead herself has written.)
There arc, of course, gays and women who are
against boy-love, and take a svong line about pro-
tecting children. But what is dangerous about
Janus' methodology is that he is all too willing to
split movements in two and pit one half against
the other. His very concept of a "split” is wrong
headed since there are always more than two opin-
ions in any movemctii.
On the bottom line, Janus is not talking about
"protecting children,” he is talking about rebuild-
ing the family, destroying sexual freedoms (for
everyone), installing sexual repression as a cultural
norm, and a return to that knucklcheaded concept
of “innocence" that the New Right is always ulk-
ing about. You can be sure that once Janus could
get rid of all those "bad gays” he isn’t going to
have very much patience with the "good” ones.
The “good women” libcraiionisis arc not going to
fare any better because Janus maimains a wom-
an’s place is in the home with the children: "Par-
ents preoccupied with their own quests may not re-
spond to children’s needs to be protected. ...”
At the root of all these "problems” is the "sex-
ual revolution" — which Janus refers to as "the
sexual holocaust” — a Densen-Gerber coinage.
But the term "sexual revolution” is only a catch
phrase for anything that strays from traditional
values. Thomas Szasz has referred to the psychi-
atrist as a modern day priest. The morality preach-
ed by Janus (and ail the Densen-Gerbers of the
world) is.no different from that old time religion
preached by Aniu Bryant, the Pope, and Jerry
Farwell.
Not only is The Death of Innocence a sham, a
bogus "study,” and a pack of lies, it is a frontal
attack by the New Right on the advances made by-
women, gays, children and any other progressive
group over the past thirty years. With outright lies
and pandering to people’s fears Janus is attempt-
ing to enforce God, motherhood and apple pic in
our lives, whether wc like it or not. The issues of
child sexuality arc unclear and difficult for many
people to talk about. It is important that women
and men in the feminist and gay movements con-
tinue to forniulate and discuss our own ideas. But
it is equally imponant that whatever our positions
or feelings that we refute and avoid any connec-
tion with the likes of Sam Janus, Densen-Gerber.
and Det. Martin. Failure to do so will result in
disaster.
NEWS NOTE
CHILD VICTIMIZATION
OR FEMALE RAPE?
A Pittsburgh elementary school teacher has been
charged with raping two male school children. The
news here is that the person charged is a female.
Kathleen Harden, 31, is charged with 5 counts of
statutory raoe. 1 count of involumary deviate sex-
ual intercourse and 8 counts of corruption of
minors. She has been charged with sexual activity
with a 1 3 -year -old boy and a 15-year-old boy. Sc.x
texjk place in her house, in her car and in a school-
room closet. This is the first time in Pennsylvania
history that a woman has been charged vt-jth rape.
This is a new wrinkle in the increasing enforce-
ment of the law , since females — ostensibly the
objects of legal protection — have never oeen
charged with statutory sex offenses. Which raises
the profound questions: is this a matter of "sexual
viaimization” of children? Or, because the boys
are males and have cocks, is this marter of male
rape of a woman, as the rape ideologists would
have it? We'd like to ask the state of Pennsyl-
vania; Which one plays the Victim's Role?
NEWS NOTE
CRAZED KID-KILLING MOM
BLOWS AWAY 15 YEAR OLD
Leonard Moeby, 15, was standing with
friends In Queens this past June when
29-year-old Denise Spencer, a black Queens
mother, approached him and shot him dead.
Police said Spencer was upset because
Mosby has allegedly had sex with her 9-year
old son on Memorial Day and she thought he
should be in prison.
Spencer pumped 4 bullets into the 15-year
old. Friends described Mosby as much
younger looking than his age.
“She was the calmest person at the
scene” sd. the arresting officer, Dennis
Magooiaghan, about Spencer after her into
custody.
NAMBUl HEWS FALL IW1
23
Dear NAMBLA:
I received your letter and was glad lo hear from
you.
You don’t know how good it makes me feel to
know you people at NAMBLA are out there and
uniting. Because of NAMBLA 1 don’t feel like a
freak anymore.
Let me tell you how i came to be here at Patton
Slate Hospital (CA) as a mentally disordered sex
offender on a 4-year sentence.
I met Billy when 1 first moved to Long Beach
(CA). At that time Billy was 13 years old. 1 came
right to the point and told him 1 dug him. Then 1
asked him if he wanted to go home with me. He
asked me why. 1 told him 1 wanted to suck his
cock. He said yes. So we went lo my house and we
got down. Then we started talking and started to
get to know each other. Billy told me he was living
with his mother, whom he loved very much.
Billy and 1 saw each other every day for the next
2 weeks and we fell in love. We were totally free in
our sex with each other and we had complete re-
spect for each other. Billy was living for me and I
was living for him. \S'e had all the happiness any.
one could ask for.
At that lime Billy asked me to come home to his
house to meet his mother. He also asked me not to
say anything about our feelings we had for each
other.
Billy’s Mom and I hit it off great. She was a big
woman and lots of fun. But what shook me the
most was her lover Mary. Yes, she was gay. To
this day 1 don’t know why Billy didn’t tell me. I
guesa that is why Billy’s Mom and 1 got along so
well together. Nothing was said about Billy’s love
for me but 1 was sure she knew. After all, what is a
13-year -old boy and a 29-year -old man doing to-
gether every day all the time? But she said
nothing.
One day Billy and I were over at his house and
no one was home. We were on the bed making
out. No clothes on. Well, about that time Billy’s
Mom's girlfriend walked in on us. She looked at
us and smiled and said don’t let me intemipi and
then left the room. Billy aitd I finished making
love, then went out to talk to her. She said it was
no surprise, and then promised not to tell Billy’s
Mom, From the first day I met Billy’s Mom and
found she was gay 1 wanted to tell her about Billy
and me. But Billy said no.
Well, the next day when Billy and I went to his
house, Billy’s Mom met us at the door. She looked
mad. She said, what the hell is going on here. So 1
told her Billy and 1 were in love and we needed
each other. Billy came lo my side and told her it
was true. She said that she was not noad but hurt
that we felt we could not teU her. She wished us
happiness and told me she would break my arm if
1 hurt Billy. For the next 6 months, we were like
one big happy family.
It was Billy’s birthday. He was 14. 1 bought him
a Polaroid camera. That’s aJ! we needed. We spicrt
the next few days taking pictures of each other and
pictures of us doing it together.
One weekeivl I had to go to San Francisco to
take care of some business. So Billy and 1 went
and we had a great time. It was Sunday and I
could see it would take me a few more days to
complete my business. Billy had to be in school
Monday morning. I had promised his Mom 1
would have him back in time. So we drove back to
Long Beach. 1 told Billy I had to drive right back
to San Francisco. He did not want me lo go. We
were together every day since we met. Every free
second wc were together. He begged me not to go.
1 sure did not want to go. He was afraid wc would
not sec each other again. I told him I would be
back on Wednesday.
1 was about to leas’e San Francisco on Tuesday
night when the cops pulled me over in my car.
They asked me to get out and the^ nroceeded to
search my car. They found the porno pictures of
Billy and me and arrested me. 1 could not call Billy
as he had no phone and 1 could not write as I never
did know the number on his house. Can you be-
lieve ihalV 1 did not kr.c-w the address and ! wa?,
just about living there.
Well, the police in S.F. found out 1 was on
parole in Long Beach. They got ahold of my pa-
role officer and had him put a parole hold on me.
It took them 90 days to get me back to Long
Beach. I was going crazy there. I had no way to get
in touch with Billy.
When 1 got to Long Beach 1 was given a Public
Defender for the charge of 288-ChUd Molest.
I asked him if Billy was going to be in coun as I
wanted to see him. He told me that one week after
I went to S.F. Billy ran away from home and left a
note that he was going to go to S.F. to find me.
1 forgot to tell you that S.F. sent the picture of
Billy and me to my parole officer and he identified
both of us.
The court proceedings took 6 uionths and there
was still no word of Billy.
So here 1 am at Patton, and due here for 2
years.
My major concern is to change the laws. This is
what I want to devote my life to.
1 love young boys. For me they are the most
beautiful things on earth. I can’t stand lo see them
fucked around any longer. With all that bullshit
guilt-trip. I don’t want lo see them hurt anymore.
As you can see I want to join NAMBLA as I fee!
I can help and I know I will. Even though I am in
here now, I will be out soon. I will do what is
necessary for the cause.
As you can see at this time I have no money but
J would like to have all the fiyers and info you can
send me.
1 don’t receive any mail here except my Cay
Community News.
One thing that would really help me while 1 am
here is a pen pal. I don’t know if you can get me
one. But if you can I hope.
Power to the cause.
Thomas O’Donnell
3102 E. Highland Avc.
Patton, CA 92369
Unit «2
NEWS NOTE
CINCY GAY PRIDE CELEBRATION
SPLITS ON MAN-BOY ISSUE
Members of Cincinnati's Lesbian Activists
Buneau voted against being co-sponsors of
this city's 4th annual gay pride celebration.
The issue dividing the lesbians from the
Greater Cincinnati Gay Coalition concerned
the discovery of a sex incident between an
adult male officer of GCGC with a minor male
son of a lesbian. The man. whose account of
his difficulties appeared in NAMBLA NEWS
#4, resigned his position with the Gay Coali-
tion. Some lesbians demanded that GCGC
condemn the man and man-boy affairs. The
members of GCGC reached no consensus.
Other lesbians sought to keep LAB associ-
ated with the GCGC, One wrote: "I hope thai
this issue does not prove to be a divisive
force which wifi prevent unity in the future. .
The gay community in Cincinnati, aside
from constant struggle with the basically
conservative Republican tone of the town,
faces a county attorney who is rabidly homo-
phobic, Gay radio personality John Zeh was
indicted this year for reading over the air a
satiric sketch about the use of lubricants.
YMCA OFFICIAL GETS 7 YEARS PROBATION
COMMUNITY DISPLAYS WIDE SUPPORT
FOR GERANIAN
Stephen C. Geranian, associated with the
Greater Springfield YMCA for two decades,
was found guilty of 4 counts related to inti-
macy with an 11-year-old boy.
Judge William Simons sentenced Geran-
ian to 7 years probation, ordered him to
undergo psychtatric treatment and forbade
him to work In any capacity with children.
Defense atty. Thomas Martinelll told the
Court that a prison would not only be
uncalled for but would be an injustice.
Springfield District Attorney, Matthew
Ryan, himself facing a prospective state
Investigation for alleged irregularities and
abuse of his office, prosecuted Geranian in
person. Ryan recommended a suspended
prison term and probation.
Geranian was executive director of the
YMCA’s Camp Norwich, the oldest Y camp in
New England. It is at this camp that Geranian
allegedly slept with e 1l-year-old camper.
Large number of the accused friends
attended the two week trial. When he was
found guilty, one supporter gasped: 'Ms there
no justice!" It was clear that Geranian, no
matter his private activities with some boys,
was regarded as an important member of the
community.
^ NAMBLA NEWS FALL Ifn
“One deiendant — from Boston — paid his attorney $75,000 to
buy him out of his trouble. The lawyer pocketed the money
and pleaded him guilty anyway. The man got 5 years in
prison."
f>ew trial vtras or<Jorftd for Phlilips. The trial
n^er /oo* place. Phitllps, originally giwi a
30year prison sentence, walked out a tree
man.
The sloppiness of the cases against rrmny
of the men was slowly revealed. It was re-
ported that the police had carefully coached
the boy witnesses as to thefr court testimony
— whether it was true or not. Or>e defendant,
Robert Lang, pleaded guilty to 2 charges,
friends figured he had been forced to do
this. At the time mentioned in Lar>g’8 com-
plaints, Lang was either in Saudi Arabia or on
Kwajefien Atoll, working security for the U.S
government. Having pleaded guilty, Lang got
four years probation, it wa a good trick on
Connick's part. Instead of dropping the
charge against Lang, since he was clearly out
of the country at the time. Connick played up
the fictional angle — that there must t>e an
international angle to "the ring."
Two of the men charged. Peter Bradford of
Miami (FLK and Richard Jacobs of Boston,
turned themselves in and got released on
bail. Then took oft. Jacobs, owner of the Jet
Spray Corp., Is said to be either in Europe or
Central America. Once again, we see that
wealthy or well-connected men can avoid
prosecution (Campbell. Jacobs. Bradford)
while middle-class and working-class men
get roped into long sentence and expensive
legal fees.
Suspicions remain about what Jacobs did.
Was he an informer? Did he set another
Massachusetts' gay man up to save his own
neck? A Yankee-ish gentleman, who is a self-
acknowledged-repressed boy* lover (‘‘I would
never do it because I knew ft was lltegal").
met Jacobs in 1976. They both shared the
services of a gay lawyer here In Boston,
Jacobs talked this gentieman into accom-
panying him to New Orleans with assurances
iha; New Orleans was a wide-oper. iow.-t
where anything goes. They went together in
Sept. 1976. The Boston gentleman, while
there, engaged in sex with a teenaged male
hustler — what he said was his first sex ever
with a minor — and a few days later returned
to Boston. Most of the New Orleans men
were arrested just a few days later. This
gentleman wasn’t arrested until November,
1976. Jacobs was arrested in October. 1976.
This Boston gentleman had recommended to
him a prominent Boston defense attorney
who is well-known for his contact with the
legal establishment. *'My retainer is (2S.0CX)’'
sd. the lawyer. Shortly thereafter, this at-
torney asked for $50,000 more in unreceipted
$100 bills out of sequence in order "to make
all your New Orleans problems go away."
This lawyer had assured his client he had an
inside track In the New Orleans D.A.’s office.
When the lawyer and his Boston client finally
showed up for trial in New Orleans (this
lawyer didn’t even bother to fight
extradition), they were eating in a French
Quarter restaurant when the lawyer said:
"Oh. by the way, I'm going to plead you guil-
ty.’’ Which he did. The Boston gentleman got
a 5 year sentence. He served 38 months in
Louisiana's prisons.
Jacobs meanwhile, having perhaps set
this guy up, was long gone. Is It possible
Jacobs would have pushed this other Boston
guy upfront for the D,A, to nab? Who knows?
But remember, that in the existing ec«r>ario.
It is essential for the cops to have rich out-of-
town men winging In to suck off the local
boys. If you don’t have these guys, the boy-
fucklng looks like a hum-drum ordinary local
affair. Each dragnet Is different in this regard.
The climate of the times and the depth of the
political corruption in any one burg will
gauge the extent of the lies dared Issued by
the O.A- and cops. Genasal, In Boys of Boise,
quoted the police as saying that Trans World
Airways had to doubii^ meir number of flights
Into Boise because the BL action was so hot!
As to those who cooperated with police,
there are indications that at some point In
the investigation. — probably long befo.'-e the
arrests — John Reed Campbell had passeo
along into to his old buddy Harry Connick.
One reponer who talked with Campbell while
he was in ftight and after he was returned to
the Parish of Orleans said he was a strange
man, sort of paranoid, vary nenrous and not
at all trusting. But since Campbell knew
Woodall, Cramer and Halvorsen, It’s clear he
was in a position to tell about the parties at
Halvorsen's and elsewhere,
After the arrests, Lewis Siaile went state’s
witness. The local authorities promised him
that If he pleaded guilty to 2 counts and ap-
peared as a witness for them, he would not
go to jail. In typical police fashion, they trick-
ed him. SJalle kept up his end of the bargain,
but the authorities gave him a 15 year sen-
tence. It was Siaile, in 1978, while appearing
as a witness at a motion for new trial for Larry
Phillips, who made it public that Connick and
Campbell had been old quean lovers, etc.
As soon as that went public, the New Or-
leans papers had a ball with that one. The
D.A. got a taste of his own medicine, and it
was quite bitter. In typical fashion, he turned
on the news reporters and their sources. The
major source for the Campbell-Connick boy-
friend stories was Raymond Villarubia Con-
nick found this out quickly and rushed to ar-
rest Villarubia. Connick charged Villarubia
with a sex offense crime with a minor. Prob-
lem was; the guy who was Vliiarubia's ''vic-
tim’’ (boyfriend, actually) was 28 years old!
Not to worry. The crazed and desperate D.A.
had other ways. He went on TV and said the
reporters from the New Orleans Tlmes-Pica-
yune and the paper Itself were ’’whores’’ for
printing the stories about his alleged private
life. He osJiec a jury tc harass the
press. Methinks, the lady doth protest too
much! In 1980, the charges against Villarubia
were dismissed.
D.A.s, if they are to succeed, must be bul-
lies of the worst stripe. Which always brings
us back to the same question of how cops
can build cases on what some boys say, and
how do they get info from the kids? Det. Mar-
tin, of the L.A.P.O., hangs boys over cliffs by
their feet and threatens to kill them if they
don’t talk. Other cops have their own pat-
ented-terrors that must wot;k. This Is work
many must enjoy: picking up faggot 14-year-
olds, taking them down to the station, scar-
ing the bejesus out of them, making them
cry, smacking them — really, the perfect
Other for a sadistic, repressed cop! Connick
and his clique used alf these methods. Con-'
nick got forced confessions out of 10 boys,
mostly street kids who hustled and who fett
(quite correctly) that they were very vulner
able. Connick, on the one hand, said that
these men abused the boys in the Boy
Scouts while he "was the protector of all
these boys ”
One defendant wrote: “As I said at the
outset, the Boy Scout label was a sham. A
rotten piece of politics on the part of Con-
nick. He ruined the lives of 9 men. Directly
hurt 9 boys, and smashed a good Scout
troop, blackening the Scouts in general. Con-
nick created havoc where there was none." In
the best tradition of District Attorneys.
As to other police methods: a former Asst.
D.A. under Connick (who left after these
charges came down) left public service and
became a public defender. He wound up as
counsel for one of the accused and would
not stand down because of a perceived con-
flict of interests. Another Asst. D.A., who had
left Connick’s staff, gave an interview to New
Orleans Magazine and said that Connick and
cops had had extensive pre-programming
sessions with the boy "victims'' for them to
get their lines right.
A number of the boys have since said that
the D.A.’s office used numerous threats
against them. Most of the boys used by
police against these nine men were from
broken homes, dependent on social services
and/or worked the streets. These kids
honestly feared police power. And they were
forced to cooperate. This is a standard
feature, as we have seen, in all these "Sex
Ring" panics launched by crooked D.A.s.
Under the banner of "protecting the little
children," the law enforcement agencies
regularly terrorize boys, threaten their
families with cut-offs in welfare or other
payments, or actually remove them from their
own homes and place them in foster care
situations or in police-monitored homes.
Senator Kefauver. with his Senate Commit-
tee on Crime, bad a few choice words about
New Orleans. He and his whole Committee
went down to that torpid Southern city to
take testimony. In their final report, Kefauver
& Co. said that New Orleans had “one of
America's largest concentration of gambling
houses." They concluded that organized
crime flourished there as in few other places,
and it did so with the help and assistance of
corrupt "sheriffs, marshals and other law en-
forcement officials.” The more things
change . . .
Men & Sentences in New Orleans Cases
Defarydants
No. of Charges
Santanca
Boan, Nelson
3
25 years
Cramer, Heny
27
45 years
Halvorsen, Richard
12
30 years
Lang, Robert
1
4 yrs. prob.
Manors, Rbt
t
6 years
Mellor, Hugh
1
5 years
Pass, Richard
1
40 years
Phlllipa, Larry
-
30 years
Slalla, Lavria
1
7 years
Woodall, Ray
2
75 years
22
LETTERS
• ITS SO GOOD
Dear Friends:
Having rccmily read Ihc Dec. /Jan. issue of
NAMBLA MEWS, Bosion, MA. for the Tirsl
time. I decided to write a letter to NAMBLA
showing man/boy love in a happier situation than
the horror stories I had read. Although it is true
that we must be constantly reminded of the in-
justices committed against us, 1 nonetheless
wanted to volunteer a cute story concerning
man/boy love which has been just great.
Having recently taken a position in a record
store on the main drag of a suburban town. 1 was
fortunate enough to establish a rapport with the
younger boys that ‘hung out’ on the avenue.
One night, and it had been a particularly boring
one, this beautiful 13 year old boy came into the
store. I recognized him immediately as we had sev-
eral nice chats on occasion before.
To make a Jong story short, during the course of
our conversation. I told him ! was gay. The an-
nouncement stunned him, but there was a mischie-
vous glim in his pretty eyes that told me he was go-
ing to stick arourrd. 1 ended up closing the store
early while my new friend and ! took to the back
of the store. His innocence and honesty — he had
never come before — were wonderful.
As it turned out, Kevin happened to live only a
couple of blocks from my house. I still live at
home, and my room is situated in the attic of a
two-floor house with a fire escape going directly
from the window straight down to the backyard
grass. Giving Kevin a ride home, I pointed out
where my room was and invited him up sometime.
That sometime was quite soon, as I discovered
two nights later at two o’clock in the morning. 1 lit
a few candles, turned on the stereo, and relaxed to
a very sexy experience. Kevin actually had srtuck
out of the house to come over. Apparently he's
done tnis before and it’s no big dial with hi:
parents, He assured me that "everything was
cool.’’
That was about two months ago, and Kevin has
been coming over ever since. I’ll come home from
a night out, when suddenly 1 hear a tap on my
bedroom window, and 1 know it’s my darling little
boy.
Anyway, I thought it would be appropriate to
reveal a so- far leirific nuui/boy love affair, I
don't know what the future holds, but for now I
know that HI be sitting up nights just wailing to
hear the gentle rap of his fingers on my window.
Sincerely,
Billy
NAMBLA NEWS FALL
• BUILDING UNITY
Dear N.AMBLA and David Tborsiari,
I am writing to you to let you know that 1 am in
support of your organization and its overall pur-
poses.
I have written several articles over ihe past few
years in dc/rn.se of S/M and other sexual minority
groups. Most recmilx 1 wrote an article that ap-
peared in the May 9 Gc,v CorTimunfry ,\'ews.
I have been prompted to write this letter to you
by seeing a copy of your brochure that Samois
has. as well as the copies of letters that you have
sent Samois.
My own view is that sexual deviants, including
S/M lesbians, including "ordinary" lesbians and
Gay men have no busir>ess passing judgment on or
moving against other sexual deviants as long as
safety and consent arc held to.
Can you recommend to me articies which pre-
sent the faas of men who have been legally or
otherwise persecuted for being sexually involved
with males under 18? How about articles dealing
with fsersecution of boys who are involved with
men sexually?
I know that you have been accused of being age-
ist. It seems somehow ironic to me. Has anyone
pointed out that your critics are incredibly ageist?
They assume that there cannot be a real loving
relationship reaching across generational lines.
They assume that the men must be exploiting the
boys. They discount the possibility of honest love,
affection and passion between men and boys.
They discount the idea that the boys may actually
be in an advantaged position or that boys may
have the ability to exploit in some cases.
1 hope to hear from you soori.
Sincerely,
Janet Schrim
• GLAD TO HAVE MARK
Dear Sir:
I am s fourteen year old boy involved sexually
with art older guy I happen to love very much. I
am sick and tired of listening to all these stories
about boy-lovers and how perverted and sick they
arc. if it v.'ssr.’t for my older friend Mark I
would probably be dead by now.
When I was 1 1 years old my parents started to
drink real heavy, and instead of buying fexxJ they
bought a lot of booze. They were fighting all the
lime, and my dad always hit me for not cleaning
the house. One night I was looking at this horror
movie on television and I got scared, so I went
over to where he was sitting and said "Dad. can 1
sit with you?” Well, he called me a little faggot
and then took the belt to me. He hit me extra hard
that night because the belt-buckle hit me in the Up
and 1 had to have 8 stitches. (Dad told the hospital
doctor I was in a fight with another kid.)
When 1 turned 12 things really got pretty bad.
because my mother took my little sister and ran
away. 1 was now all alone at home with my dad.
He got fired from his truck -driving Job for drink-
ing, and he took out all his hatred on me. One
night I stayed at the local library a little later
finishing my homework, and when 1 got home m>
dad was drunk and punched me in the face and
threw me out of the house. I guess a neighbor call-
ed the police because they came and locked him up
and took me to a children’s shelter.
I was only there for a short time, because it was
there when 1 met Mark who was a youth case-
worker. He was always so nice and gentle with me.
For the first time 1 was being treated like a human
being. Mark asked me if I would like to spend the
Christmas holidays with him. and 1 jumped at ihr
opportunity. All during that period Mark treated
me like his son, taking me to the movies, ice-
skating, football games, and watching television
together. The last night together was very sad
because Mark explained I was going to be moved
to a special school for boys who didn't have any
parents or relatives.
Well, Mark hugged me that night and 1 could
tell he was crying too. 1 told him that night I loved
him and wanted to remain with him forever.
I had to go back to the shelter, but a few weeks
later 1 had to go to this big court room and I saw
Mark sitting there smiling. The judge asked me if I
would like to live with Mark for good. I was so
happy I cried.
Well 1 was now l3 years old and like most other
guys was jerking'off every chance 1 could. Mark
surprised me one night and walked into my room
while i had my penis in my hand. 1 was scared he
would send me back to the shelter, but instead he
smiled and sat down on the bed and talked to me,
Tliai night he look me in his arms and gently
masturbated me to my first orgasm. He held me
light afterwards and it was the most thrilling ex-
pcricnicc of my entire life. 1 know that Mark is a
boy-lover, but I also know he loves me like a son. !
am now 14 and I have a girl friend and Mark is
very excited for me. He even gives me spending
money to take my girl friend ice-skating and to the
movies.
Vtcli, Mark gets these Sulletim from the
NAMBLA and he is a member. I often look at
these and other boy-love material and I gei sick
when 1 read about how some people treat guys
who love boys.
Without guys like Mark. 1 would probably be
dead today because without someone to Jove me
— well, life wouldn’t be worth living.
I am the luckiest and happiest kid today because
of boy -lovers like Mark.
No one told me to write this letter, and every-
thing 1 wrote is the complete truth. Maybe others
can learn from my experience that boy-lovers are
indeed the real men of our society. Thank you for
reading this and you can print it if you like.
A very proud 1 4 year old
Carl
. -'-'I- / Vs"
March 1981: A dozen NAMBLAites
anc friends picket and trash the Kid-
Porn-Fest run by B.U. Nutty Nurse
Ann Burgess and featuring that old
pom-waver himself, Lloyd Martin.
Mluel and Reeves actually wound up
at the very same dinner table with
Lloyd and Beth Martin. Kid-Porn
Lloyd was very upset. Nutty Nurtz
never recovered. She’s subsequently
been read out of the leadership of the
victimization Mafia. Back to blood
drives tor her. She can use her teeth!
On 13 Sept., after his private tete-e-tete
with the D.A., Campbell pa^ed his bags and
split town. On 14 Sept., police wrote up an ar-
rest warrant for Campbell. The next day, Con-
nick ordered the police not to arrest Camp-
bell.
On X Sept., the O.A. filed bills of Informa-
tion alleging that 13 men — some affiliated
with a New Orleans Boy Scout Troop — had
been invotved in a massive conspiracy to
commit aggravated assault and aggravated
crimes against nature.The charges did not
issue from a grand jury.
Connick marked a handful of boy-lovers for
arrest. High on his list were Ray Woodall,
Halvorsen and Cramer. Even though Connick
had built his witchhunt by prying names out
of boy street prostitutes, the D.A. played up
the Boy Scout angle, going on and on about
how these men had organized a special troop
simply tor their sexual pleasure. And, hence,
the press created The Boy Scout Sex Ring,
even though Boy Scouts were few and far
between. In fact, among the dozen boys used
by Connick as "victims," only or>e had been a
Boy Scout. Subsequently,the national office
of The Boy Scouts of America cleared Troop
137 (Connick’s alleged Sex Scouts) of any
hint of scandal. The Big Lie was more sale
able than the ho-hum truth.
After the 10 Sept, arrests, John Campbell
pot some special attention. When Campbell
heard through the gay-vine that Connick had
NAMBLA NEWS FALL IWl
“The man-boy porno shots were sent to Dallas for developing.
The hi'Speed developer broke down. An employee saw the
prints and made a complaint. Thai’s how the whole investiga-
tion got started.”
sent some porno shots of a man and a boy to
a film processor in Dallas The high-speed
developer broke down. An employee at the
plant saw the porno pix arw3 made a com-
plaint to police.
Subsequently, a warrant was issued to ob-
tain a trunk of Halvorsen's which was stored
at Campbell’s studio. Police thought it con-
tained more porno pictures. What began as a
standard police investigation was scooped
up by Connick’s office, tarted up, and turned
into a massive attack on the boy-lovers.
Four of the defendants, Cramer, Halvor-
sen, Woodall,and perhaps Bradford, had
known one another in Florida where they all
had been associated with a school years
before. They moved to New Orleans, except
for Bradford. Most of the partying went on at
Halvorsen’s.
The main charge used against most of the
New Orleans men was that of conspiracy —
"conspiracy to commit the aggravated crime
against nature,” A heavy-weight handle for
such an everyday matter.
One New Orleans native who followed
these events closely said the conspiracy
charge was unusual. He couldn’t ever recall
Its being used before in statutory sex viola-
tions. He said that in the pest, when boy-
lovers were arrested, the charge was one of a
lesser degree and the penalty was probation
or 6 months in jail. The subsequent draco-
nian penalties meted out to Woodhall and
the others was a clear indication that D.A.
Connick was participating in the national pat-
tern of making boy-lovers into a targetted
political minority.
Connick maintained that all these rnen
were part of a conspiracy. Only those two
men (Mellor and Phillips) who were not New
Orleans residents escaped being charged
with conspiracy. They faced specific sex
acts charges,
As to Connick’s advantage in charging
cortspiracy, it permitted ail the accused to be
tried before the same judge. This turned out
to be Judge Schulingkamp, a hard-liner.
Through a little legerdemain, Connick arrang-
ed to have Schulingkamp hear these cases,
even though technically, in an impartial
system, the prosecutor should not be allow-
ed to select a judge or go judge-shopping, it
was Schulingkamp who handed out these
hideously-long sentences. Connick had said
he would come down heavily, in public, on
any judge who gave the defendants light
sentences. The trickery of the D.A. was clear
in the case of Lewis Sialle. Sialle had no prior
record. He had cooperated with the O.A. as
informant and state witness. A pre-
sentencing investigation recommended pro-
bation to the court. Sialle got a 7-year
sentence.
Campbell, who fled New Orleans after be-
ing tipped off by the D.A. personalty, was
later arrested and charged with conspiracy.
But just recently, a judge threw this charge
out. Campbell, in 1^i, still faces trial on a
sex charge.
About the same time the photos jammed
at the Dallas photo lab, a boy scout told a
New Orleans city official that he had had sex
with a scout troop leader. Police began an in-
vestigation into this. It turned out that this
alleged boy victim had been one of John
Reed Campbell's models for the Huck
Finn/Tom Sawyer Life-On-The-Mississippi
series.
Police said they took statements from 3
other boys. These boys linked Halvorsen and
Lang to sex activity. It was 9 Sept. 1976 when
police looked through Campbell’s studio for
Halvorsen's and Lang's suitcases which they
had heard were stored there.. On 10 Sept ,
police arrested Halvorsen, Woodall and one
other. Campbell was not a suspect then.
Campbell in Yuma, Arizona Campbell was
returned to New Orleans. The conspiracy
charge against him was dropped. And he re-
mains in that city, busy painting and hoping
his buddy Cortnick will drop the remaining
boy-charge he still faces.
“John Reed Campbell is one of New Orleans’ most successful
painters. He was also a backer of D.A. Harry Connick — and
perhaps a former lover. When Campbell heard he was about to
be arrested on a sex charge, he met with the D.A. personally
and then left town. Special favors for special friends.”
him on a list for arrest, Campoeii cailed Con-
nick's office and set up a meeting. Campbell
went to the D.A.’s office and met with Con-
nick and his first assistant. No one has
disclosed what was discussed in this private
session. The result, however, was that Camp
bell fled New Orleans within 2 days. He
travelled around the country and finally set-
tled in Yuma. Arizona, where he continued to
paint, shipping the product off to New
Orleans for sale. This was the fall of 1976.
After he fled charges were filed against
him and he was declared a fugitive from
justice. It was later learned that Connick —
who had won reelection in 1977 — hadn't put
Campbell’s name in the National Crime infor-
mation Computer (NCIC) until Jate 1979.
Unless the status of fugitivlty is pumped into
the NCIC, it’s virtually impossible to catch a
fugitive from one state If he fs hiding in an-
other state. Many suspect that was
Connick's purpose.
After Connick was exposed on this lapse,
he put Campbell’s information Into NCIC.
Shortly (hereafter, Campbell was arrested in
Arizona — on a tip from postal authorities —
and returned to New Orleans.
One of those arrested by Connick in this
witchhunt and sent to prison, wrote a
memorandum to the court about Connick’s
relationship with Campbell. He wrote:
‘‘Either Halvorsen or Woodall told me that
Campbell and Connick were former homo-
sexual lovers and had been in business to-
gether. ( though they were putting me on but
I saw Campbell was grinning ear to ear and
he responded that he and Connick used to be
lovers and that they did operate a health spa
and a physique magazine business. Camp-
belf told me that he and Connick were tight,
and that he had some action photos of them
in sexual acts and that If t did not believe
him, he would show them to me. I was only in
New Or1ear»s two nights and did nol see
Campbell again and did not see the pictures.
I have no reason not to believe Mr. Campbell.
. . . Campbell told me much more but i
definitely remember him saying that ne and
Connick were lovers, that he had action pic-
tures to prove this, that Connick had a pood
ass and he used to fuck the shit out of him."
Campbell, after his 1979 arrest and reiurn-
to New Orleans, publicly denied reports of in-
timacy with the D.A.
What has been suggested is that Connick.
even while in the crucible of whipping up this
witchhunt, managed to tip off his old friend
and campaign contributor so he could split
town, it was not revealed if any money chang-
ed hands for this information.
As to what was behind this crazy spasm of
anti-gay and anti-BL panic, defendant Rich-
ard Halvorsen wrote; "No one but Harry Con-
nick. One reason is obvious. He was running
for reelection. He got it. Another reason is
his own gayness. By directing an attack on
the gays, he took the spotlight off himseil.
He must have been aware he was suspect. A
woman Asst. D.A., who has since gone into
private practice, Ms. Bane, told me that she
and others have heard stories of Connick's
being gay long before these cases broke."
Larry Joe Phifiips, who is now out of prison
and living in Georgia, was tried because one
boy allegedly named him as a sex partner, in
fact, the boy had named two other men but
not Phillips. And the state and Connick had
defiberately withheld exculpatory evidence
from Phillips and his attorney.
The alleged victim, Danny Karlsen, told
police that he had had sex with Phillips in
New Orleans. But Karlsen was in St. Louis ai
that time with another man. It was Phillips's
court-appointed attorney, Richard Stricks.
who, in the midst of these sensational charg-
es, fought hard for his client. As a result, a
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Harry Connick, D.A. for the partsh of Orleans
since 1973. is f>e enforcing the taw against
boy-lovers to hide his own gay past?
THE 1976 NEW ORLEANS BOY-LOVE BUST:
IT GOES ON & ON
**A long-time resident in that city had this to say about New
Orleans: *As far as politics goes, New Orleans is a banana
republic’.”
by Cincinnatu^
In the past 10 years, there have been
enough anff-pedo dragnets by various crooi^
ed cops and dernenied, power-hungry D.A.s
that a pattern to their assaults has emerged.
The bones of this pattern were first visible
in John Gerassi’s acooi^t of a similar scan-
dal in Mormon-ridden Idaho In The Boys of
Boise. But further practice has put flesh on
this skeleton of a witchhunt scenario. As
recently as this summer, we’ve watched the
same tired script unfold on Long lslar>d with
the raid on Martin Swithinbank's home and
the attack on NAMBLA.
There are 3 essential compor^ents required
for a “successful" police and official panic.
Their goal is to pre/udice the public through
outrageous headlines and stories and force
those arrested to plead guilty, plea bargain,
or inform for the state to continue the witch-
hunt.
First, all sexual activity between men and
teens must be characterized as “a ring."
Secondly, activity must be said to be so
rare and hard to find that men from all over
the world are winging in to this town to de-
bauch and sexually abuse poor young boys.
Money is said to be no problem as long as
the men can get the boys. The boys in each
locality where a witchhunt occurs are depict-
ed as $0 luscious and special that they draw
men from ail over. They must be juicy and fill-
ed with hot cum.
The motives of the men must be clearly
portrayed as malevolent and anti-Christian.
The men are said to be shipping the boys
around (often using credit card accounts),
drugging them, using them for pom, prostitu-
tion, to snooker in new recruits, etc. If lucky,
the cops will really hit paydirt and say that
the men, after sucking the boys dry, kill
them. Cops have wet dreams over discover-
ing a man-boy murder ring! Sort of like The
Marines!
Yet each p»articular anti-BL witchhunt has
its own twists. A regular tidbit thrown in is
that, since no red-blooded AmerlKan lad
would ever make It with a 6L, the “abused"
boys must be characterized as somewhat re-
tarded, or at feast simplo-minded and pliable
to the predatory wishes of rich outsiders.
This stuff really packages well, and the press
can swallow it whole for days without ever
burping up one question.
With these three essentials in place, the
cops can sweep in and arrest as many as
they choose, ruining careers, fives, smashing
families, homes, etc. Just for that headline
and possible promotion.
That these "ring” charges usually fall apart
under public scrutiny or in court means little.
If each crooked D.A. has his way, there wilt
be no public scrutiny, and when they get to
court, it will only be to plead guilty and take
the outrageous sentence. Evidence for sex
charges is something publicity-loving D.A.s
have scant use tor.
New Orleans, in 1976, wont through just
such 8 spasm.
New Orleans. Some have written about
this city as though it were a separate country,
cut off from the rest of the U.S. by its water
defined geography. Some say It has man-
ners, customs and legal practices all Its own.
Surely, In this fraud-ridden land, no city
has a monopoly on public malfeasance and
political corruption. Yet. If there were a con-
test, the city of New Orleans would be a top
finalist. .A long time resident had this to say
about New Orleans politics; "As tar as poli-
tics goes. New Orlear>s is a banana
republic."
The current D.A. there is a young man nam-
ed Harry Connick. He repfaced Jim Garrison
who is now a state judge.
Garrison came to fame as a result of an in-
vestigation he undertook to find out who kill-
ed JFK. When his chief suspect — a strange
little quean by the name of David Ferrie — up
and died on him. Garrison, feeling the heal
from the press to make his case, indictee
Clay Shaw tor conspiracy in the JFK kill.
Shaw was a playwright, an early gentrifier
in real estate, and retired director of the Inter-
national Trade Mart.
Shaw was also homosexual. Garrison kept
Shaw under indictment for two years. Gar-
rison stirred up the homophobic angle to the
Kennedy Assassination and ruined poor
Shaw. It was an outrage even the abuse-
inured New Orleans people found too hard to
take.
Garrison himself made headlles when a
father accused Garrison of sexuat assault
upon the man’s 12-year-old son at the New
Orleans Athletic Club. No charges devel-
oped. Garrison was later indicted by the Feds
for taking illegal pinball machine kickbacks.
He beat the rap. Garrison lived next door to
Carlos Marcello, the reputed crime boss of
New Orleans. Garrison repeatedly denied any
presence of organized crime in that city. Gar-
rison now disp>enses Justice — or perhaps
sells it.
Harry Connick first ran for the D.A.’s office
in 1969. He lost to Garrison by Just a few
votes. In 1973, he had better luck; he won. in
1978, he got his 4- year term extended to 6
years. He doesn’t face the voters until 1984
Harry Connick has followed in the foot-
prints of Big Jim. Sometime in 1976, Connick
got the bee in his bonnet to go after the boy-
lovers. His witchhunt became the paradigm
for future anti-pedo dragnets.
One strong lead as to Connick’s motiva-
tion for this anti-gay and anti-BL witchhunt
comes from his own past. This leads us right
to one of the interesting angles in the case.
One of the more famous and successful
naturalist painters in New Orleans is a
gentleman named John Reed Campbell.
Campbell’s work Is a staple at New Orleans
galleries. Years back, Campbell had run a
male health club. One person familiar with
this club wrote: “At one time in the ’40s and
'50s, Mr. Campbell had a health club at 732
Lake Ave. in Metairie. His healthfyouth club
was attended by many youths from nearby
Lakeview. Harry Connick was among the
membership. Physical exercise and photog-
raphy were the keystone o< the youth club.
... An inner circle developed among the-
membership” which used to engage in
mutual masturbation, sucking and fucking.
And photos were taken. “These activities got
out of hand, and Campbell decided to dis-
band the club. Campbell was known lo have
trunkloads of photographs in his personal
collection which he processed in his studio
and from which copies were made and sold
to colfectors nationwide through ads placed
in his own publications."
In the ’60s, Campbell launched an art and
physique magazine. Some of the health club
photos made their way into print.
After Clay Shaw was arrested, Campbell,
who knew Shaw, was queried. His gay phy-
sique mag folded. But came the 1976 Bicen-
tennial celebration and Campbell developed
the idea of tying in his painting with the
hoopla. He advertised for young male models
to pose for his series of Tom Sawyer/Huck
Finn paintings. One report had it that Camp-
bell even cleared his soliciting newspaper ad
copy with Connick before it ran. Some time
earlier, Campbell had been commissioned by
the Boy Scouts of America to paint a targe
canvas filled with boy scouts. This he did.
One rumor has il that Campbell used an old
photo of a younger Harry Connick as the
model tor one of the prettier faces in the
work.
Campbell was close to the D.A, in several
regards. He counted himself as a political
supporter. Campbell said he had painted
targe campaign signs for Connick’s success-
ful election bid. This work was worth about
$2000. He also said he bought $1000 worth of
benefit tickets to help wipe out Connick's
campaign debts.
How did Connick wind up arresting so
many men under the sensational (and false)
scare of "a Boy Scout Sex Ring"?
One gentfeman, Cramer, had apparently
NAMBLA SITWS FALL
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would odJ>- hive skimmed through it when it arriv-
ed. Furthermore, in a three month period Darid
distributed at least four hundred letters amongst
the Committee, yet he was assumed to have re-
membered the precise wording of only Hve letters
which had been sent to PIE over a period of two
years. So much for the alleged conspiracy!
In ibc face of such iririaJ evidence, why did the
jury at the second trial unanimously con via Tom,
especially when there are good grounds for believ-
ing that at the first trial a majority were in favour
of acduiital? Perhaps it was partly because the
second jury were generally oldci and more set in
their views. Perhaps they simply lacked ibe
intcUeciual capacity to understand a law which
even Iaw7crs find extremely complex, and fell
back on the notion that the State would not spend
TWO years and hundreds of thousands of pounds
unless somebody were guilty of something. But, in
my view, the crucial difference between the two
trials was due to an apparent turn of face by Judge
Leonard. In the first trial be had restricted the
showing of child pom magazines, relating to the
lesser charge, allowing the jury to see only the
front covers. His reason was that the jury's verdict
would be unfairly prejudiced against the defend-
ants if they saw ail the conients. Doubtless true!
Exposure of sexually explicit photographs of chil-
dren to a British jury , conditioned to believe in the
myth of children's sexual innocence, must be trau-
matic, and any rational verdict would fly out of
the window. Yet Judge Leonard did precisely this
at the second trial, allowing the Prosecuting
Counsel to show twelve magazines to the jury. Ail
this was irrelevant to the more serious charge, of
course, but it could scarcely have failed to have a
damaging effect on the jury's minds.
On Friday 13ih March, 1 98 1 , Tom was sentenced
to two years imprisonmem. and sent to one of
London's more notorious prisons. Wormwood
Scrubs, where he remains at time of writing (30th
May). He is in solitary confinement, and will re-
main segregated from the rest of the prison popu-
lation for the rest of his sentence. He is locked in
his cell for twenty three hours a day, but is allowed
10 spend one hour on exerrise with other segre-
gated prisoners provided it doesn’t rain! On ad-
vice from his solicitor, he will not appeal against
the sentence. He is allowed to receive lettCTS from
personal friends only. His own letters are limited
to two a week, one of which he must pay for, and
he is allowed visits twice a mouth. All leners are
strictly censored, contrary to a decision by the
European Commission for Human Rights. We
have succeeded in getting through some books, a
radio, a regular subscription to a newspaper, and
some money, but, as yet, very little else. The
prison authorities have arbitrarily refused a
number of items without expianation. f visited
Tom some days ago. and he was very cheerful and
said he felt well, but he had lost a lot of weight. As
a result of the massive press publicity he is well-
known to the other prisoners, and has had threats,
verbal abuse, and one half-hearted attempt at
physical assault. But he feels he can cope with
these difficulties.
Tom and Michael DagnaU face anotha, even-
more preposterous charge, conspiracy to commit
gross indecency. The substance of the charge, for
what it is worth, is that they were seen with rwc
boys shortly before the second trial. In fact, the
four had struck up a friendship ai a local swim-
ming baths, had then gone roller-skating two days
later, and had planned to go horse-riding the
following weekend, subject to the parents' ap-
proval. Nobody has alleged that any Indecency ac-
tually occurred, or was ever attempted, only that
Tom and Michael must have intended to commit
gross indecency. BECAUSE THEY AJIE PAE-
DOPHILE! The fact that there was no complaim
from the boys or tbciT parents, that there is ab-
solutely DO substantive evidence to isulicate that
Tom and Michael had planned anything illegal at
all, and that Detective Sergeant Brian Collins,
who was responsible for the PIE investigation,
was driven 60 miles to observe the airests, because
"be was interested,” smacks of outright police
harassment, and more. The implications of a suc-
cessful prosecution will be horrifying for paedo-
philes in the UK. Any two paedophiles ccKild be
conviaed of conspiracy if a child were teen talking
to them. Tom and^Mi:l^l are due to make their
thirfi annmiranr-^ in mint rtn 52nd June.
NAMBLA PROTESTS
BUTLER CONVICTIONS
The North American Man/Boy Love Associa-
tion is protesting the arrest, trial, conviction and
sentencing of Nevada boy-lover Robert Butler, 61 ,
For many years Butler has maintained a world-
famous acrobatic act, “The Amazing
Monahans.”
Bulla was conviaed in early 1980 of sex with
thai 13-year -old Jeffrey (Nickolas} Lauzon. a per-
fonner in his aa. The sensationalist and homo-
phobic trial Lasted for more firan one week. It %vas
bdd in Vegas. In the most horrendous
sentence ever handed down in any statutory sex
offense case in modem times, the court sentenced
Butler to ten years for "lewdness with a minor,”
life with probaiioa sdter five years for an ‘‘in-
famous crime against nature.” and twenty life
sentences for ‘‘sexual assault” with piarole after
ten years on each count.
All sentences were ordered to run consecutively,
which means that Butler would have to serve J07
years before being eligible for parole. Butler's pro-
blems began when be took Jeffrey and
Christopher Hildebrand, a boy then 1 1 -years-old,
who had also joiood the aa, to a photographer for
publicity photographs.
Thomas Hopkinson, 33, an amateur pbotogra-
pha and summer camp counselor, promised to
take the expensive promotional photos for gratis.
Hopkinson look the photos of the boys, and then
ailegccEly told Jeffrey to wait outside for Butler.
He then allegedly took Christopher into a bath-
room and performed an aa of feUatio up>on him.
Hopkinson accompanied Butler when he drove
the boy home. When the boy's mother saw him in
the car , she questioned Christopher as to who he
was. Christopher broke down and told her of the
man's sexual acuviiics with him. He also stated
that BuUer had kissed him on several occasions.
Hopkinson fled to Los Angeles. Butler was ar-
rested for “lewdness with a minor,” and was jail-
ed. He was lata released with time served when
the charge was reduced to "annoying a minor.”
Hopkinson was returned from Los Angeles to Las
Vegas, and was eventually released on $5(X>.000
cash bail. He was chsuged with "sexual assault”
upon Chrisiopha. Nothing furtha has been heard
from about this case since then.
Jeffrey’s grandmotha began to question the
boy about Butla when she learned that he was
bomoscx uaJ, and that he bad a previous record for
consensual sex with boys. Jeffrey finally told ha
that Butla had been having sex with him since be
was lO-years-old. The grandmotha complained to
the police, whereupon Butler was charged with ten
counts of sex with the boy. The indictments were
lata dropped, and Butla was set free.
Butler was laur summoned by Jeffrey’s motha
to meet ba and the boy at a park, where two
policanen emerged from nearby bushes to issue an
arrest warrant charging him with 22 counts of sex
with the boy. As Butla was taken away. Jeffrey.
was led away crying and screaming. The boy was
so upset that he had to be given sedatives for
sevaal days afterwards.
Anotha boy, Paul ZapuUa, then 12. visited
ButJa in jail and told him of the mistreatmem a!
the hand of police designed to get Jeffrey, himself,
and otha boys to sign siatcmems against Butler.
Paul also delivaed several messages to Jeffrev’
from Butla during the early p>an of the arrest and
trial.
Butler had met Jeffrey in 1977, when the boy;
was lO-ycars-old. through a mutual friend. Jeffrey
was then hustling [with two other boys] on the Las
Vegas strip. Butla signed Jeffrey into his act, and |
found jobs for the otha two boys. Butler
approached the boy’s mother, a divorcee and card
dealer in Las Vegas, and she eagerly agreed to sign
the coniraa for ha son's participation in the
acrobatic aa. She also signed an agreement which
gave Butler primary care ova the boy.
Butla stales that he is not guilty of the charges
ihii the state of Nevada has made against him
SeveraJ of the counts in the indictment involved
dates prior to the lime Butler had met Jeffrey.
Butla asserts that because of pressures by the
boy's family and the police. the boy felt that he
bad no other choice but to hide his homosexuality
and implicate Butler.
Butla is being represented by court -appointed
appellate counsel Kathryn Kirkland. She is prepar-
ing an appeal, ciiha for relief in the sentence, or a
retrial with a change in voiuc to a location where
homophobia is not so rampant. It is not caiain
that this is possible in Nevada, a state influenced
by Mormonism,
NAMBLA condemns the atucks by Nevada
[and otha states] against boy-lovers, and the ami-
horaosexuaJ prejudice demonstrated in this case,
whae the faas at trial were acknowledged to in-
volve private and consensuaj sexual behavior.
The sentence imposed is truly cruel and unusual
punishment in any possible sense of the phrase, h
is in reality a ''death” sentence, though the state
docs not call it that. NAMBLA asks everyone con-
cerned about police and state violations of civil
tights to show their support for Butler in his ap-
peal.
Send laiers of protest to: Roben List, Gover-
nor, State of Nevada, State House. Canon City.
NV 89701, and to Charles L. Wolff, Jr., Direaor
of Nevada Prisoru, P.O. Box 607, Carson City,
NV 89701. Send a copy of any sutements to the
Prisooa Suppon (Committee c/o NAMBLA.
A/d INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO
ALL.
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Ttie foUowirtQ is an account o1 the trials oi the rr>ernl>ers of PIE
«arfier this year and the continuinQ British harassment of boy-
lovers on that grirn little island. The public prosecution of Tom
O’Carroll and others was realty not so much about the picayune
activities alleged by the state to have transpired within PIE. No,
O'Carroll and the others were hounded because they were in the
forefront for advocacy in an important but unpopular cause.
Public officials are all bullies (and most are crooks) and so they>
naturally, target the weakest and most honorable men in the
polity. O’Carrol! was also especially targened because he had
written e researched, brilliant, hard-hitting and topical book on
pedophilia.
What w€ see in the PIE trials, just like their counterparts here
in the U.S., is that the so-called authorities really assume there is
massive public support to uniformly condemn boy-lovers, their
advocates and those who would work for change. What we who
follow these events discover is that — exccept for the hard-core
sexually-repressed (usually men} and (he political para-fascists
— diversity of opinion and willingness to understand maie
relationships of all ages is as diverse as human behavior. Slowly,
but surely, the state is going to lose this battle of assuming
“public opinion" is automatically theirs.
Much public comment compared O’CarroM’s trials with those
of Oscar Wilde. Correctly so. Tom bravely survives incarceration
at Wormwood Scrubs (Du Cane Rd. London W12 UK) while Oscar
was shipped to Pentonviiie (even older and more foul). While
there, Wilde commented; "If this is the way the Queen ueats her
prtsOf»ers, she doesn't deserve to have any!" From ims side of
the Atlantic — and far be it from us to turn up noses at any
culture — it is hoped that the flames licking the cities of Britain
will sweep up and consume that horrible govt, and its sovereign.
The best tonic for the British, as for the Americans, would be a
new revolution. And when that time comes, a long line of martyrs
— some Irish, others not — but including Wilde ano O’CarroH.
will have their names invoked as retribution day arrives
•THE P.I.E. TRIALS.
TOM O’CARROLL & 4 OTHERS VICTIMIZED
BY BRIT “JUSTICE”
After two major trials and five changes in the
wording of the indictmeni. the State, aided by a
judge and jury, fmaliy succeeded in its intention
of convicting Tom O’Carroll of “conspiracy to
corrupt public morals.” What crime, deserving
solitary confincmem for two years, was Tom
alleged to have committed? According to the
Stale, he had conspired with other members of
PIE’S Executive Committee to encourage adver-
li.tcrs in PJE's Comae; Page to gain introductions
to children for sex. In a second charge the defen-
dants were said to have conspired to corrupt
public morals by encouraging advertisers in the
same publication to exchange child pornography.
At the outset, it should be emphasized that NOT
A SINGLE guilty verdict was brought on the latter
charge, but iu importance in the trials lay in the
opportunity it gave to Prosecuting Counsel, David
Tudor Price, to prejudice the jury's minds against
O'Canoll on the Hrst, more serious charge.
The law of conspiracy to corrupt public morals
is a judge-madc law, introduced in the seventeenth
cemury, which has never been passed by Act of
Parliament. It had lain almost dormant for three
hundred years, and, in 1976 the Law Commission
recommended its abolition. Parliament, two years
later, suspended any decision to abolish the law,
because recent governments had found, to their
delight, that it provided a useful means of sup>-
pressing the views of dissident tnioorities. Pro-
secutions can be brought on far weaker evidence
than is normally required, and judges have power
to adapt the law as they go along. The outcome is
that a person may not be able to know if he has
broken the law until he has been already tried and
convicted. A secorrd, ludicrous fact is that it is not
illegal to corrupt public morals, only to conspire
with another person to do so. In 1970 the House
of Lords expressed its concern over the state of the
law, and introduced a clause stating that the pro-
secution must pffove that a defendant had intended
to break the law. However laudable ibdr motives
may have been, the Lords failed to appreciate that
they were asking future juries, twelve ordinary
men and women, to perform an impossible task,
to assess what the defendants had been thinking
perhaps years previously. In the First of the pres-
ent trials the jury recognised this dirficulty and
refused to bring in any gtiiUy verdicts at all. One
of the four defendants, David Wade, was acquit-
led on both charges. Two others, John Parratt
and Michael Dagnall, were acquitted on the more
serious charge. They failed to agree on either
charge against Tom, or on the lesser charge
JAIUD leader O'Carroll
against John and Michael. So the three were
ordered to stand trial again.
The six men and six women in the second jury
were a moUey selection, including one barmaid
gnd an elderiy gentleman who represented a uni-
que proof of the existence of li/c after death.
Evidently they considered themselves perfectly
qualified in the art of mind -reading, for they
brought in a unanimous verdict of guilty against
Tom on the more serious charge after only tJiree
hours. The lesso charge against him was waived.
John and Michad were found not guilty — since
the evidence against them was practically non-
existent, the jury could acaredy do otherwise —
and they were released.
If Tom did conspire to corrupt public morals,
wbcxn did he conspire with? Cercamiy not with
himsdf. nor with the three other defendants, who
were found not guDry. But the State had ac-
counted for thiv poaribility, and had named two
further members of the Executive Committee in
the indictment. Conveniently for the Prosecution,
neitber of these members was available to defend
himslf: Kcilh Hose, ex-Cbairman of PIE lives out-
side the UK. and David Grove, who had been
PIE’S Secretary, died of cancer last year. Two
weeks before David’s death, his solicitor was con-
descendingly informed by the Director of Public
Prosecutions that David would not be required to
attend the trial. V'ei his name wa.s kepi on the in-
dicimcnt. Judge Leonard in his summing-up
sp>cech, described the evidence against Keith Ho.se
as *‘a straw in the wind,” clearly implying that he
could not have been a co-conspirator. He was
more equivocal about David, so we must as.sume
that the jury thought him to be the other con-
spirator.
How were Tom and. presumably. David alleged
to have conspired together? Well, one of David's
duties had been to collect PlE's maii, open the !-:-•■
ters, and distribute them to members of the Rv.
ecutivc Committee. Some letters were from r.- m-
bers wanting to place adverts in the Comae; f'iicc.
Very occasionally a member might, for example,
wish to meet a family with children. Since there
was a possibility that the member's intemions
might be sexual, Tom would point out that this
was illegal, and suggest that the adven was altered
so that it could not indicate that any iliegal act was
intended. Three months later, the amended advert
would be duly published. The Prosecuting
Counsel pounced on this point, accepting the
legality of the altered advert, but claiming that
Tom must have known the originai imcniion of
the member. Therefore, in his eyes, the altered
advert was nothing more than a legal smoke-
screen. Had this view been correct, it is ironic to
note that the Prosecuting Counsel did not demon-
strate one single instance of sex between an adult
and a child as a result of the Contact Page. Nor
was any account taken of the fact that Tom had
been answering at least six hundred letiers a year,
and been making numerous public sjjeechcs, as
well as holding down a responsible and demanding
job. The Conuct Page only constituted a small
and very hurried part of his work in PIE. In such
drcumstances occasional errors of judgement are
inevitable, but they do NOT warrant a prison
sentence.
To make the conspiracy pan of the charge stick
— two people are accessary, remember — Da rid
Grove, coDvcnicnlly dead, was a necessary ac-
complice, Having read the proposed advert from
members, and. having presumably read the pub-
lished versions THREE MONTHS LATER,
David must, according to the Prosecution, have
noticed that their wordit^g had been altered. And,
by letting them pass, he was automatically a co-
conspirator. Had David been aKve to defend him-
self. the sheer iimnity of this assertion would have
been glaringly obvious. He never showed particu-
lar interest in the Contact Page, and, at most,
NAMBLA NEWS FAU. 19*)
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NAMBLA VICTORY!
GROAT WINS EARLY PRISON RELEASE
Sinct NAMBLA was founded in 1978, two
cases of men cau^t up in the legal system for
nothing more than affectionate sexual activities
with tmnor males have been taken up by
NAMBLA. The first of these was the case of
Richard Pduso (see related story this issue for
Peluso update).
The second was the case of David Groat.
Groat, a 27 -year -old native of Pittsfield (MA>,
was indicted in Dec., 1979, for one aa of oral sex
with 6 14-ycar-old boy. Groat was employed at the
Piitsfieid Boys Club, where he worked 7-days a
week. The boy, Walter Caricchio, who had identi-
fied himself as gay and whom Groat understood
to be troubled by his identity, solicited Groat to
blow him. Caricchio knew Groat was gay. The sex
took place in the pool hall room at the Boys Club
one late winter afternoon just before Christmas.
After the sex. Caricchio ran from the room — in a
bit of bonjosexual panic and went home and
told bis step-mother. Barbara Caricchio, about
the sex act. She went to Uie local police and made
a compLaim.
Groat was arrested and charged with two felon-
ies and one misdemeanor. Caricchio was returned
to his natural moeber in South Boision, where he
has remained since this dme.
Groat wailed 11 months before trial. In the
meantime, be cooucted NAMBLA. He spoke
about his case at Boston and New York NAMBLA
meetings. He marched with the NAMBLA contin-
gent in the 1980 Gay Day Parade in Manhattan.
Groat’s Pittsfield Public Defender told him to
plead guilty to all charges. He told Groat that the
D..A. would be lenient and asic for do more than a
2- year sentence. Groat rejected the idea of forego-
ing a trial.
Through NAMBLA, a direct appeal went out to
the membership and $1000 was raised to assure
Groat proper legal counsel.
In the fall of 1980, Groat retained Atty. Michael
Rjpps who agreed to go to trial and fight the
charges. Seeing they’d have to make a case in
court, the D.A.’s office suddenly made noises
about a lighter plea bargain. Groat indicaied he
might be willing to plead guilty to a misdemeanor
charge, but he adamamiy refused to plead to a
rape charge even if it meant he could avoid jail.
The D.A.’s office did a fast about-face and
brought the charges to trial in Nov, 1980. After a
2-day jury trial before Mass, Superior Court
Judge William Simons, Groat was found guilty on
all three counts. Days later, Simons sentenced
Groat to 2 years in the Berkshire County House of
Corrections. In Massachusetts prison practice, on-
ly SO^ of a house of corrections sentence u served
before release.
Groat was initially held in protective custody on
the assumption that * homosexual boy-lover
would be subject to harassment and intimidation
from other inmates. After a few weeks of this
Z3-houj-a-day lock-up, Groat sought rdeaie into
the general prison population. The Berkshire jail,
which has an average populaton of about 7S in-
mates, all white, usually houses young men doing
short time for minor offenses. The average age of
the inmate is about 20.
Groat was quickly accepted by the other imaies .
Groat said that in his months in the prison he had
only two problems — one with another inmate
with whom Gro»i spoke at length to get the guy
PMt gay stereotyping, and whb an intracubly
boEDOpbobic giund.
Groat tumed imo a kind of jailboute lawyer,
assisting the younger inmates with awareness of
their rights and their legal c^^tions. Oroal’s ex-
(>erience clearly demonstrates that the automatic
assumptions that gay men and boy-lovers are in-
mate targets are wrong-headed, and that each
situation has its own qualities.
NAMBLA continued working for Groat's free-
David Groat after his July, 1981, raloase from
prison. NAMBLA worir helped gained his
release.
dom. Boston gay activist attorney John Ward, of
the Gay A Lesbian Advocates and Defenders,
took up Groat’s appeals.
On June 26, Ward appeared before Judge
Simons and argued for a revoke and revise mo-
tion. No one from the DA.’s office bothered to
show' up ai this hearing. (One item Groat had
shared with NAMBLA was that the D.A., the
First Asst. D.A. and the Sheriff of Berkshire
County were ail members of the same family.)
Atty. Ward had brought with him Dr. Jonas
Fields, a Boston psychiatrist who is an expert in
the area of male sexuality. Field told the coun that
the impact of a sexual encounter between an adult
male and a sexually active tecnaged male might
cause guilt and anxiety, but only because of the ex-
isting social uboos on such encounters. As for any
long-range impact, Field denied there ’d be any
p-auma or permanent psychologica] effect. This
was an Important point, since Simons had origin-
ally sentenced Groat because he accepted the
state’s argument that man-boy sex acu were harm-
ful to youth.
Ward also submitted two letters by prison
guards that testified to Croat’s good work in the
jail'. A supportive lener from the Direaor of the
Berkshire Cbuaty Court Clinic was also given the
court.
Groat himself had written the Judge a leiier. In
it. Groat told Simons about his experiences prior
to (ocarceratioa and while behind bars. "1 was
■nbjected to a physical assault prior to the trial by
7 tecnaged boys one night while out walking.
Shortly before this incident, I was subjeaed to a
violent and fordble rape by an adult inaic, who
iCTeamed obscenities ai me in reference to my sex-
ual orienutioD and incident with the boy. . . .
Here (in prison] I watch others whom I respea
become bitter as their sentenoes go on. These once
happy ipid easy-going people become unlike them-
selves as the time in which they have learned their
lessons has passed, but the incarceratioD con-
cioued. Your Honor, J do acu want to becozne hke
these peopk. I do not want to become biner. or to
take a negative attitude which could have s harm-
ful effect. . . . I . truly fear that continued in-
carceration could have such negative effects on
me. ... I wish that I could show you each thing
that has occurred in roy life during these past two
years, but this is impossible. All that I can do is
tell you about these things, and hope that you can
understand apd believe them."
While in prison, Groat had also taken it upon
himself to build up the prison correspondence nei-
work for NAMBL.A. Based on the men in
Mass, prisons and ireaimcm centers. N.A.MBL.A
estimates that there are at least 5000 men serviric
time in the U.S. for activities similar to that which
sent Groat to jail. While in prison. Groat said he
was receiving up to 30 or 40 letters a day frorv.
oihci gay inmates. Groat often got more mail u:i .i
daily basis than the rest of the prisoti popuiaiuHi
combined.
On 6 July. 1981, Groat was ordered released
from prison. Judge Simons, who was sit tine in
another county, personally drove to the jail to de-
liver his release order to the Sheriff.
Groat had served only 7 months of his 2-yea:
term. Simons also revised all 3 sentences to time
served and ordered concurrent probation fo:
Groat on all three counts.
There has been diverse speculation as to wr,\
Groat's motion for early release succeeded. Groat
himself thinks that it was partly as a result of hi^
organizational skiLs while in prison that the
Sheriff came around to wanting his early di>-
charge.
Wa>nc Sunday, a New York .S'A.MBL.A mem-
ber who has closely followed Groat’s case from
the start, said; "My feeling was that they wanted
to get rid of David after 6 months. David was well-
liked by all the guards, except for the one
homophobe. And all the inmates liked him a lot."
Atty. John Ward had this to say: "The Judge
felt that any more jail time would exceed proper
punishment for the offense. J think he was im-
pressed by David’s letter. We made a showing that
the effea of consensual sex with an adolescent is
minimal except for the brouhaha caused by the
police and courts. The real lesson is that if people
weren't behind Groat, I never would have heard
of him and I couldn’t have helped him. We’re
ahead of the game by our own network. It's
significant that there was a suppon network.
Sometimes, occasionally, it works. This was one
of those times. I’ni glad he's out."
Judge Simons, in March of 1981, presided at the
sensational Springfield (MA) trial of Stephen Gcr-
antian (see NVws Notes) who, despite the seriia
tionaJ charge of sex with an 1 1 -year-old boy at a
YMCA camp, had wide community suppon in his
fight with the D.A. Largely because of this out-
spoken community suppon, Gcraniian was given
a suspended sentence. Judge Simons might have
been sensit'ucd on this issue as a result of this and
a growing number of other similar cases.
As Groat himself documented before and dur-
ing his incarceration, there has been (and con-
tinues to be) an unprecedented increase in the
number of men arrested in Massachusetts for
statutory sex violations (no force). Of those ar-
rested, gay men arc a disproportionately large
group. Some legislators and judges appear to be
growing impatient with local, and usually corrupt
county Distria Attorneys, who shower indict -
menu down upon those for private sexual beha-
vior. Activities which would not be a matter for
criminai justice purview in other districts clog
criminal courU in Massachusetts. For example,
the Springfield County D.A. has over 1700 people
in that county under indictment. This is 5 times as
many as are under indictment in Suffolk County
(Boston) which has 3 times the population. It is
dear these D.A.s manipulate the criminal justice
system to nail their critics and terrorize those (gay
men and boy-Jovers) whose persecution will win
fympatheiic press. One way judges can respond to
these over -in dieting D.A.s is to step-up the process
of early retease. This may have played a role in
Groat’s release. Certainly, the Berkshire County
D.A. (Robeno) and the Springfield County D.A.
(Ryan) have been the most malfeasant in office in
pursuing men who have had consensual sex with
minors.
Groat has relocated to New York City where he
now heads the NAMBLA Emergency Defense
Project. He also continues to develop NAMBLA’s
Prison Project.
When asked what he had to say about his ex-
periences with the legal process. Groat said:
"Prison is just a waste. It’s just warehousing. You
just sit and sit."
8
N AMBLA SEWS FALL 1«1
As NAMBLA NE^'S goes ro press {Augj, no decision had been reached by Justice Sieele on the
motion to remove Richard Refuse from his status as a Sexuafly Dangerous Person.
DECISION AWAITED ON PELUSO SDP HEARING
The Sexual Treatment Unit at B.C.f.,
where Richard Pel use has been
locked up since 1977.
Bridgewater Correctional Institution
~ so they call it.
On May 7 through 10, 1981, a hearing was held
in Suffolk County Superior Court before Judge
Waiter Steele for removaJ of the Sexually Danger-
ous Person (SDP) status of Richard Peiuso.
In 1977 peluso admitted fcUating and mastur-
bating two boys then aged 1 1 and 13. No coercion
was alleged and the boys were said to have
solicited sexual relations with him. For these aas
Pfl».»5o was found guilty on three counts of
sututory rape of a child under 16 and given three
concurrent 15-10-25 year sentences and two counts
of sexual assault on a minor with two concurrent
sentences of five years.
Declared “sexually dangerous’’ by the Com-
monwealth in 1978, Peluso has spent the last three
years in Bridgewater Treatment Center, a max-
imum security prison. The issue in the hearing is
whether the incidence of consensual sexual rela-
tions with children fulfills the statutory rc-
quiremems of SDP which are: a) violence and like-
ly repediion or b) compulsion and repetition or c)
aggression and compulsion and d) a likelihood to
inflict harm in the future.
Peluso was represemed *‘pro boao” (free) by
Attorneys Richard landoli and Kim Ducharm.
NAMBLA organiied the defense and contributed
W50 out of its Emergency Defense Fund to pay
for subpoena fees and other related costs.
NAMBLA ’s co-spokesperson Toro Reeves said
on the importance of the hearing: “At stake is
whether the mere occurrence of sexual relations
with a minor constitutes an aggressive act, justify-
ing a SDP finding.”
The state’s case was argued by Linda Kata of
the Massaebusetu Anomey General’s office. The
Suffolk County distria attorney’s office which
usually handles such hearings had disqualified
itself because of its interest in Che case. Both sides
relied on the testimony of a number of j»ychj-
atrisu and psychologists.
Dr. Moore, chief consultant to the Common-
wealth on SDP, testifying for the Commonwealth,
originally examined Peluso in 19T7 and determin-
ed him to be SDP, Moore said PeJuso is mainly at-
tracted now to older boys.
Moore testified that Peluso is not interested in
treatment at Bridgewater and shcHild be allowed to
serve the remainder of his sentence in a correc-
tional institution. On cross examination, Moore
said of his 1977 interview that Peluso was fearful
of Walpole and that he had desired commitment
as SDP in order to be protected. Moore knew of
no evidence of trauma caused to the boys involv-
ed. Case law has until now included “sexual ad-
vances’’ as constituting harm.
Dr. William Nagier, a staff psychiatrist a:
Bridgewater, said Peluso has made no progress.
He testified that there bad been a consensus
among the therapists that there was no change in
Peluso ’s makeup and that he is likely to have sex
again with boys unda 16. He pointed out, bow-
evCT, that none of the acts Peluso was accused of
were necessarily aggressive.
Nagier maintained since there had been “not
one whii of progress” made by Peluso from the
1978 SDP finding, he is today SDP.
Peluso had repeatedly requested a treatment
plan outlining the goals and objectives of both the
individual and group therapy he was receiving.
Unable lo get such a report, he dropped out of
therapy after two and a half years. Michael Mc-
Quire, an administrator at Bridgewater, testified,
“Due to a lack of staffing, there is a backlog in
preparing treatment plans.”
Joel Frost, the co-leader of Peluso’s therapy
group, testified that Pduso is unlikely to be
violent. He said Pduso has made progress in
openly accepting his homosexuality and in taking
responsibility for his actions. Frost admitted this
progress was sot noted in his written evaluation
on Peluso.
Dr. Charles Silverstein, a psychologist and
author of several books on homosexuality and
founder of the New York Gay Mental Health
Clinic, appeared as an expert cm sex between men
and boys and testified on the interpretation of psy-
chological tesu administered to Peluso. After re-
viewing these test results, he found no evidence of
aggressiveness but rather a low-grade depression
and loneliness.
Relationships with boys, Silverstein said, can be
either nunuring or harmful depending on their
context and milieu. Under cross
examinationSUverstcin said sexual relations bet-
ween men and boys are often non-hannful and
nurturing.
Dr. Richard Pillard, Director of Psychophar-
macology at Boston University, Professor of
Psychiatry and one of the founders of the
Homophilc Health Service, testified that Peluso is
not sexually dangerous, having shown neither
compulsivcness nor aggression. Pillard com-
mented further that Peluso had formed adult
homosexual relations, a significant indicator of
progress though be is still anracied to late
teenagers. He added that a treatment plan is
necessary and important for a patient commiued
to a treatment center.
Dr. William Mallamud, Clinical Director of the
Solomon, Carter and Fuller Mental Health Center
and a Professor of Psychiatry, also found Peluso
to be neither aggressive nor compulsive and there-
fore not sexually dangerous.
Peluso testified that in Bridgewater he had for
the first time come-out to himself and publicly in a
therapy group. He said that he loved boys and had
in the past made a number of mistakes in judg-
ment and now would have acted differently. In
Bridgewater he said he had formed adult homo-
sexual relations and was in contact with a number
of gay community groups and of these he was very
proud.
In summation, Katz, arms waving, said that
though some sex vrith boys may be nonharmful, in
her mind what Peluso had done was obviously
wrong, that he had “preyed” on boys and had
violated their trust in him by having sex with
them. She argued it was in the best inieiesis of
both the Commonwealth and-Pcluso for him to re-
main at Bridgewater, avail himself of the treat-
ment programs there, rather than spend the re-
mainder of his sentence in a prison.
landola pointed out that none of the cxp>ens
testified that Peluso had over aaed aggressive!)- in
his relations with boys. Peluso he said had made
progress at Bridgewater and should be allowed to
serve the remainder of his sentence in prison.
Judge Steele made it clear that he was interested
in hearing testimony on whether sex between a
man and a boy could be harmful or not. Steele did
not make a decision pending his study of the
documents and testimony. Under the SDP statute,
Peluso couJd be held for life at Bridgwater. If
found not to be SDP. Peluso would be sent to
Concord prison for reclassification and would be
eligible for parole in 1987,
NAMBLA Nirws FALL Iffl
7
STATEMENT IN SUPPORT OF CIVIL RIGHTS
FOR NAMBLA AND ITS MEMBERS
July 19SI
The North American Mac Boy Love AssodC'
tion (NAMBLA) and a number of ita officers and
members have been subjected to unconstitutional
harassment and the violation of todividuaJ and
assodatioo (%bts by the FBI, local and state
police io tevcral areas, and by many newspapers
> and other media. This includes violeot raids on
private homes, the illegal inierroigadon of
NAMBLA members in several states puro'y to
gain infonnahon about the legal activities of
NAMBLA. atteinp' o monitor meetings and
teize membership IL< ;ind false statements about
NAMBLA's involvement in illegal aaivities in-
dudxog pornography and transporting minors for
“immoral” (sexual) purposes.
NAMBLA has acted wholly within the law to
work for emotional and legal suppon of men and
boys suffering heavy oppression because of their
sexual orientation and tifestyte; to seek to educate
the public about intergeocrational relationships;
tn take stands on a variety of issues including the
age of consent laws, the military draft, U.S.
imperialism. dvU rights of children and youth,
protection of children from abuse by parents,
teachers and others, etc.; and to demonstrate at
gay pride ptarad.es in New York and Boston, at the
lesbian and gay march on Washington, at the
march on the Pentagon to protest V S. policies in
B Salvador, and elsewhere. NAMBLA u an open
organization which does not act secretly.
NAMBLA hat scrupwiously avoided any activity
which could be construed as illegal. NAMBLA has
refused to establish a correspondexKx among
members and has not allowed the exchange of in-
formation about boys or their photographs, and
oertainiy has not exchanged or allowed the ex-
change of pjoraography . NAMBLA has not trans-
ported a single boy or man anywhere for “im-
moral'' p>urix>ses. Even its soda! gatherings have
been free of any interchange among men and boys
which tnighi be misconstrued. NAMBLA is a legal
organization engaged in dviJ liberties, educauonai
and px^litical work.
Tbc undersigned organizatiom and individuals
within the lesbian, gay, civiJ libertarian and pro-
gressive movements stand in full solidartty with
NAMBLA. While we do not necessarily endorse"*
man-boy sexual relationshipis or the genaal pur-
poses of NAMBLA, we acknowledge those pur-
poses to be legitimate aims of a legal group acting
for dviJ righu, political change and education.
It is unconscionable and illegal, therefore, for
the FBI and other law enforccmcni agencies to
harass NAMBLA officers and members or to
smear NAMBLA in the media as a “sex ring*’ or
an organixadoo cstabiished for the “expiloiiadoo
of children.” It is panicularfy offensive for FBI,
police and media to stir up public hatred by such
false siatetncnis to the pxjint that NAMBLA mem-
bers are physically harmed or threatened — as
took p>lacc in Baldwin Harbor, New York, on Julv
20 and 22.
The undersigned individuals and orgatuzaiions
demand that all law enforcement agencies and
media respect the rights of NAMBLA as an or-
ganization and the civil rights of its members. Wc
demand an end to lies in the media and a retrac-
tion of those false suicmcms concerning
NAMBLA Or its members which have already ap-
peared. We demand an end to the million-dollar
FBI and police campaign (“project Hawk”)
against NAMBLA and NAMBLA members. We
demand that money be instead used to investigate
and prosecute tbc hundreds of thousands of un-
solved murders and violem assaulu on children,
women, people of color and lesbians and gay men.
We urge ail who support civil liberties and sex-
ual freedom to join us in demanding an end to the
slander and illegal attacks on NAMBLA. We call
for a united from against such FBI, police and
media Uctics. If these things can be done to
NAMBLA, they can be done to all lesbian, gay
and progressive groups. Today, the man-boy
lovers; tomorrow, the rest of us.
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N A MB LA NirwS FALL IMl
NAMBLA NEWS EDITORIAL:
EXPECT THE WORST, LIVE FOR THE BEST
by Tom Reeves
Men who follow their hearts and awaken their
consciousness as boy lovers take a very dangerous
path. Any man who follows his natural and
wholesome feelings for boys into any erode
activity has gone beyond the bounds of
“normal,” acceptable social behavior. This is true
today throughout the western world, and in most
other places which suffer from the imperialism of
the west. It is true in conservative, liberal, radical,
sodalist and communist drcles. This situation is
unlikely to change quickly or radiicaily. We are
going to live with such oppression probably for
the rest of our lives. Anyone who believes that
legal and social approval of our radical lifestyle is
just around the comer U a utopian fool. So, when
you kiss the boy you k>ve, what you foodie him in
your sleeping bag beside the fire, evext when you
like naked beside a boy you have neva dared
touch, you have gone beyond the pale. You. have
{daced yourself outside the normal protections of
courtesy, civility, humane ueatment and legal
rights.
I have chosen to take that sto?. So have most of
you who read this. I have done it because 1 was
compelled to do it: morally compelled, spiritually,
emotionally, physically. 1 AM a lover of boys.
That love spans the whole range of human emo-
tions, including that wonderful mystery of sex. To
deny the expression of these emotions is to deny
myself. Having taken the step of affirming my
identity, however, 1 must not delude myscIT about
the consequences. There arc men who deny them-
selves such an identity, and who all their lives
forego any physical contact with boys or any
appearance of true intimacy with boys. They are
the mock ‘‘Big Brothers” and the jock boys’ club
leaders. They NEVER step over that line. By a
closeness to boys and by accepting the hypocrisy
of society, with its boy scout creeds, they have
found a means of maintaining some sanity. I do
not criticize them for that choice; it is a reason-
able, logical, sometimes necessary decision for
men who cannoi take on the full oppression of
being scxual/sodal pariahs, outlaws coosickred
worse than mass murderers. It is NOT reasonable,
bowwa, to attempt a half-way stance. If you are
going to act on your kyve for boys in physical and
emotional ways that validate your identity, you
must realize what you have done. TTscre is no turn-
ing back. You have stepped over the line, and you
must accept what may follow. You can struggle
against it, fight, stand proud and demand to be
treated as a human being, but do not be surprised
when they libel you, slanda you, jail you, curse
you. steal from you. beat you and even munter
you.
I am amazed and angered by NAMBLA mem-
bers who throw up their bands in dismay ms the
“sdandaT’ in New York. Who feel somehow that
something terrible and unexpected has occuned
when newspapers label us a “sex ring.’’ link us
incorrectly with sex acts ot pornography. WE
AK£ ourselves a scandal. NA^^LA ii a scandal.
We who love boys are the scandal. There is
nothing beyond which can be scandalous.
NAMBLA has taken effective and unified action
against the current media, police & FBI attacks.
Wc can be proud of that. The attack itself and the
media lies should not aeate even a ripple of sur-
prise or worry among us. Our counter -attack and
iu effectiveness should re-«nforce our collective
pride and identity.
I am also saddened by the lack of preparation
many men make for the inevitable encounter with
reality. One must, without being personally ptara-
ooid, assume the worst at ail times, but live as
though the best will happen. By that I mean, one
must assume upped phones, brutal interrogation
of boys & parents, surveillance of homes, etc. In
that sense, while being as “out” as I have been on
TV and elsewhere, I have been “discreet.” care-
ful, whatever you want to call it. SOME maa/boy
lovers stress “conservative" lifestyles, 3-piece
suits, “rcspccuble" research and scientific
inquiries about boy -love (as though that would
protea them from the holocaust), yet these same
men can make incredibly bad judgmenu about
day-to-day flaunting of sex with boys — espedally
in “passing around" boys from one man to
another. That is something 1 can understand, but 1
cannot for the life of me sec how thoughtful men
who love boys would do it. Men have not prejjared
their boy lovers for the cruehy of pMlice raids and
questioning. Some men have not even admitted
their gayness to the boys. Some have not discussed
the radical nature of their sexual relationships or
society’s likely reaction to it. This is absolutely
inexcusable. The man is taking risks when be
enters such a relationship. Bat so is the boy. The
boy is risking exptosure to friends and family who
may rejea him. He is risking inaedibly traumatic
interruptions to his life in the middle of the night
by police with guns. He is risking severe scars
caused by the reaction of society. He needs to
know that, and to be prepared to deal with it. Any
mac who fails to prcp>are the boys he loves for all
the possible cousequcnces is doing both himself
and the boys a grave harm.
Finally, there are those who flee NAMBLA at
this him of “scandal,’’ as though they had
thought NAMBLA was some son of proper sew-
ing circle. The raids and ancsts have not been
caused by NAMBLA. Such raids and arrests have
gone on always and they will continue. NAMBLA
has been damaged by some of iu thoughtless
members, not the members damaged by
NAMBLA. Those members are entitled to oui
support. They have done nothing wrong. But it is
th^ who need to acknowledge the st^dariry of
NAMBLA, not NAMBLA's being threatened by
their cases. Once you have sex with a boy, you've
ctepped over the line. Taking a subscription to
NAMBLA NEWS is oert the brave step — it is a
necessary and protective acdoo. Standing togetha
DOW, we can terak the chain of heavy police and
media attack. But some men will go to prison,
both NAMBLA memben and non-NAMBLA
jpeople. Miraclescanool be worked. Millions of
dollars are not flowing our way. What we do and
who wc are — these are fflegal, scandalous and
taboo. Like Jews in Nazi Gennany, we cannot
change that unless we deny who we are. For many
of us the emotional and moral coats of doing that
are too great . We choose to be ourselves regardless
of the heavy physical and economic liabilities. But
wc should make the choice carefully and fully
cognizant of the consequenoes.
1 suggest a few practical and essential steps for
all boy lovers.
J) Do not hide the reality from the boys. Talk
with them about being gay. about society's pos-
sible reactions, about your own pride in who you
are. The less certain you arc about yourself, the
more conflicted you are, the more you hide from
yourself and the boys your consciousness and the
radical nature of your relationship, the more likcK
it is you and/or the boy will crumble unde: attack .
2) Prepare the boys for questioning b> police.
Explain to them that police will he to them about
you, that police will threaten the boys with arrest
and other troubles, that boys need not ever say
anything at all about their sexual lives, that they
need not go with jxjUce or answer any questions.
All of this sounds very simple — and most boys
will respond initially that, of course, they would
not talk about sex to a p»obceman. But authority
has been drilled into them at school and at home,
and most people buckle quickly under the lies and
harassment of police. Considerable discussion ~
maybe even role playing — is necessary to prepare
boys for this situation. Obviously, if you have a
good relationship with the boys, there is no need
to tell boys that they can’t see you if “anybody
finds out,” or otherwise to indicate that the boys
will get into trouble if discovered. That can seem
too much like “threats" rather than loving advice.
I sugg«t preparing the boys for the brutal experi-
ence of police abuse, and then making sure the)-
arc fully and emotionally prepared for their rela-
tionship with me. The best advice is to tell the boys
to follow their hearts and their brains when
quwtioned not to advise them to lie. Trust ii
the central issues on both sides.
3) Finally, all men who love boys musi take
steps in advance to deal with sudden police raids.
Have an attorney ready to meet you in the middle
of the night. Find an attorney who has a progres-
sive record on civil liberties issues. Don’t trust
attorneys who emphasize money up front or who
suggest extremely oppressive strategies of claiming
insanity or exchanging information for freedom,
etc. Better a civil liberties attorney than a "big-
gun" or "old-boy” type who claims connections
with the D.A.’s office. Those connections never
mean anything more than humiliation to the boy-
lover and his friends. Also, make preparations for
your house, your car and other possessions.
Where possible, have straight friends and family
members be ready to help you with regard to your
employer, etc.
These suggestions are so mundane as to seem
unnecessary. For some reason, men who love boys
often fail to be realistic about the likely con,ve-
guences of their bves. Better to make thc.se
praaical preparations than to bewail scandals or
to give the pretense of being a “big brother.”
It is my condusioD ^ after talking to hundreds
of men in prison or about to face prison — that
those of us wbo take the most radjeaJ, head-on
approach, have the roost luck in dealing with these
maiim. It is the dosetted, terribly fearful, but
careless boy-lover who usually finds his world
crumbling around him. The world has already
grumbled once you step over the line. You have
made your choice. Face the awful faas around
you, and go on living and loving, bravely, but
wisely.
NAMBLA NEWS FALL IMl
Transcnp: of siaiemeni by Harold lo AVw York
City commu«/n meetini, held in the parlor of the
Washington Square Methodist Church. July 29,
1981. The statement is a ctescripiion of the raid on
the Ahlers residence and Harold's questioning by
police.
STATEMENT BY BOY VICTIM OF POLICE TERROR
To suin ii off, I'll tell you how the cops treated
us. They came to the bouse on the 11th. July 11th.
Me and my cousin was downstairs washing the car
and they came up to us without showing any
ideniiftcation and grabbed us and brung us
upstairs, to wait out or the porch for two and a
half hours. And then Karl and two other cops
came down and they said they were locking him
up. They showed no proof of what they had on
him. They said they were going to sit down and
talk to us, that everything was OK. They left.
They didn't talk to anybody. They questioned my
cousin and two friends when they were sitting
there when they was searching the house. And
then they took them to the police station when
Karl went, and then before they all left they took
me and another friend of ours down to the police
station and questioned us. We didn’t even know if
they were cops or not .They didn’t show any iden-
tification until J saw the police car upstairs. We
didn’t know if they were cops or nothing. And
then wc got done there about two, three hours
they was questioning us all. My mother asked if
she could’vc came with us. The cops said no, you
don’t have to. So they didn’t let my mother come,
so I was there, they were questioning me. Before I
went to the police station 1 passed out on the
porch. And then they took me to the police station
and started asking me all kinds of questions. 1 was
confused then. ! didn’t know what to say or any-
thing. They made me sign a statement on every-
thing. Then they took us home.
.About two days later Nassau County cops came
up to the house and wanted lo question my two
cousins. And they wanted me to go with them.
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And thc) only had righu to tait them to th« Town
Hall. It turns out ibcy didn’t take us to th« Town
Hall. They took us down to Kingston, to the state
barracks down in Kingston, We was sitting there
for three or four hours, and then they took us to a
bar. They was sining in the bar, drinking, asking
us questions and everything, while they was on du-
ty and drinking. They had two pitchers of beer
while they was questioning us. And then they took
us back to the police staiioQ, They was question-
ing us. And this one cop, if he was a cop or not —
1 don 't know — be would question me, and all 1 ’d
been telling him was “No.” He turns out, he was
idling me that 1 was lying. 1 was telling him “i
ain't lying?” So he kept on saying that I'm lying
and everything, and then this other cop, Gordie or
whatever his name was. he came into the room,
and while I was sitting there the one cop said,
“Tliis b a waste of time with this one. He ain’t
saying nothing.’’ So. wc was out there, and about
a quaner to eleven, they had a marked car uke us
home — a cop take us home — after eight hours,
without anybody knowing where we was at or any-
thing, they finally took us home. They didn’t tell
them they were taking us down to the state bar-
racks.
Question from audience: When the police first
came to your house, did they search the house?
Did they go through your belongings and
everything?
Harold: They went through everything.
Question: Did they show anybody a seach war-
rant?
Harold: ! was outside. 1 didn’t know anything, 1
didn’t know anything until the two cops that came
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down 10 where me and my cousin was came out
with their gum ready to take out, to do something
with. They grabbed my cousin, pulled him oui of
the car . . .
Question: They physicUy grabbed him?
Harold: Yeah. They grabbed him like this, and
pulled — right oui of the car. And I was out there
washing it, and they just came up to him with their
hand right here [gesture of hand on pistol on hip),
didn’t show any badge or anything, just had their
hand on their gun. And then they told us to come
upstairs.
Karl Ahlers: We were all upstairs, and this
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treated him like he was a criminal.
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Paedophiliu: Th£ Radical Case
by Tom O’Cairoll
Peter Owen London UK 1980
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Reviewed by Michael Bronskt
In the wake of a massive attack against
pedophilia from almost all media it is a relief to
come across a sane, inieUigeni, and well written
book on the topic. While most of the “experts”
are usually “professionals” who make their
money either “curing” or persecuting pedophiles,
it is reassuring that there are books being written
by boN'girl lovers that reJace (o their ow>n experi-
ence.
Tom O'Carroll, who is now serving time in
prison for his connections with PIE, has written
Paedophilia: The Radical Case. Written with ease
and charm Paedophilia is essentially a philoso-
phica) look at the questions of child love in par-
ticular and the issues of children's rights (and by
all human rights) in general. Because it
is sen.sible, matter of fact, and honest it is impos-
sible to recommend this book too highly: it is
probably the best book yei on the topic. Extrava-
gant praise notwithstanding there are assumptions
and deiaib in Paedophilia that are weaker than the
effect as a whole.
Paedophilia' f, subtitle The Radical Case makes
sense in a social atmosphere in which the very no-
tion of not condemning the topic is suspect. But
while mo.si of O'Carroll’s discourse is on the phil-
osophy of children’s rights and a critical reevalua-
lion of social relaiion.ships (not only aduliv'chiJd
love, but also parent.’child, and the structure of
the family) his anaiysi.s many times falls short of a
“radical” perspective: “sensible within a certain
culture bound framework" would be closer to the
truth.
0‘Canoli seems to realize problems might arise
frorn his use of the word and early in the book (p.
10) c.xplains himself: “Nor is my aim 'radical' if
what is meant by that term is an attempt to 'strike
at the very roots of society’ by undermining ‘fami-
ly life'. I would be the first to acknowledge that
there is nothing warmer, more secure, or more
valuable to a child than a stable, loving family,
and I can sec every reason for supporting the best
in family life, not destroying it.” He then goes on
to say that families that deny children the right to
sexuality are "profoundly limited, however good
they may be in other respects.” Throughout the
later parts of the book O'Carrol! has good discus-
sions about the concepts of children’s rights and
how they might function within the family unit.
But as good as some of these discussions arc —
and he gets most of them from other source Paul
Goodman. Richard Parson. Larry Constantine —
I feel that they are diluted by an adherance to a
concept of the famih (as we know it now. without
mans changes) and the very concept of par-
ent.'child relationships. Although he generally has
a good understanding of the role that institu-
tionalized heterosexuality plays in the culture —
he quotes ses era) feminist sexual-political critiques
— 1 think that he grossly underestimates the ef-
fects and damages that heterosexuality and the
family have had on people’s lives.
I think that this is rc»ted in O’CarroU’s basic
assumptions of the boy /man relationship. Rather
than viewing it as a “lover relationship” he
prefers a comparison with a pareni/child or teach-
cr/pupil relationship. He argues that these models
arc more appropriate because they arc valid from
(he child's point of view . But because he is a man,
who in this case is speaking for children, the argu-
ment rings somewhat false. He refers to J. Z. Eg-
ington’s Greeh Love and his idealization of the
* 'mentor relationship” with the tacit understand-
ing that such a relationship is completely desir-
able. (There has been some criticism of the patri-
archal politics in the traditional greek man/boy-
teacher/mentor relationship, and 1 think that
these relationships have to be looked at more
closely before they are continued to be used with
such unquestioned tenacity.) 1 suspect that O’Car-
roll’s hesitancy to criticize the family more harshly
is due to the fact that he enjoys and idealizes the
pareni/child relationship.
Some of the discussion of children’s rights are
quite good, but every now and then you get the
feeling that O’CarroU is much more a shy liberal
than a radical. "I must admit it: ieiiing children
do what they want makes me nervous. I’m scared
of anarchy. ) used to like a reasonably orderly
classroom, full of well-behaved children who put
their hand up to ask questions one at a lime, who
paid attention to what I told them and who didn't
give too much trouble ... I don’t boss children
around, but just in small things — like suggesting
that they put their lollypop wrappers in a waste
bin — I automatically find myself modelling their
behaviour." Although he appreciates some
aspects of free-for-all-commune-living (which he
then associates with giving children LSD and let-
ting them play with loaded guns) he is clearly en-
trenched in a middie-class view of “niecness” and
this clearly affects his relationships with children.
Coming across like a modern-day Mr. Chipps
(whose study was surely not littered with lollypop
wrappers) O’CarroU posits a view of the new liber-
ated child: nice, well behaved, obedient, yet sex-
ual.
I think that this desire to have “nice” children is
rooted in his basic view of children (especially
boys), "The men in boy-man relationships know
that most of the boys are not going to grow up to
be gav. they arc Ariel spirits, happy for the mo-
ment to give and receive affcclion and sex play,
but soon they will fly away to girls and adult-
hood.” This rather leachy description comes
somew here between puppy-dog tails and the Walt
Disney version of Peter Pan (the original J. M.
Barrie Peter was a i;elfish, snotty, urchin). As for
the percentage of boys involved in a boy/man
rdatiomhip becoming gay ot straight , 1 don’t
know of any studies that prove it either way. But
O'CarroH's “hail to thee blithe spirit” approach
smacks of Victorian sentimentality that bears little
relation to the lives of children. If he prizes the
boys (and loves them) because he sees them as
these almost ethereal sprites — son of young no-
ble savages — his understanding of them is as off
as that of adults who insist on de-sexualizing
them.
Because his experience as a paedophile is almost
exclusively with boys — and his study attempts to
entail both the girl and boy lover — 1 found his
discussions of the former rather sketchy. He does
make some good points — and takes into consid-
eration the differences in raising boys and girls in
our culture — but becau.se his main irneresi i.s in
boys these discussions are much stronget, I ihinV
that for a better understanding we are going to
havf to turn to a girl-lover (prefereably both a
male and a female) and listen to their experience.
This weakness in dealing with girl-love comes,
partly, from the fact that O’Carroil, for ail of hi>
understanding about how fucked-up sexual roles
are, is still somewhat in sympathy with them: or ai
least he is against tossing the whole mess out the
window. Feminist writers like Kate Milieu and
Shulamiih Firestone arc much stauncher in thdi
attacks on roles, and 1 think that they go further in
those very places where O’Carroll falls short. The
questions of "children’s rights" is onh a pan of
broader questions of “human rights.” Disrupting
the traditional family only enough to irtclude child
sexuality is not enough to make major cultural
changes. It is a beginning, and at this time for
most people an unthirikable one. but it is not
enough.
1 have dwell on some negative aspects of Paedo-
philia because there is so much good in it to
recommend that to enumerate would be a disser-
vice since it should be read in its entirety. It should
be kept in mind that while it is smart, intelligem.
sensitive, and informed — radical it’s not.
Whatever the faults of Paedophilia its impor-
tance is highlighted by comparison to other books
on the topic. One of the most odious has just been
published and lest there is any doubt as to its
political inclinations (or influence) it has been
chosen as a selection in the Conservative Book of
the Month Club.
The Death of Innocence: Hov-' Our Children are
Endangered by (he AVw Sexual Freedom by Sant
Janus is a completely irresponsible collection of
misunder.standing.s. mi.sreadings. and jus; plain
lies maquerading as scientific truth and sophisti-
cated psychological insight, Janus’s ihesi,^ i.s that
our “permissive and sexually liberated’’ society
has forced sexuality upon children and that iliis
premature exposure has denied the children of
their “latency” period — a time that .lanus in.sisi.'-
is vital to their growth and development.
Aside from a gross misreading of the Freudian
notion of the “latency period.” Janus compares
his notion of the “latency period” to the "poic-
NAMBLA NEWS FALL 19*1
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NAMBLA IN THE NEWS!!!
On 7 Dec. 1980, 25 NAMBLA mem-
bers &. supporters picketed and
demonstrated at the Bridgewater
Sexual Treatment Center. This was
the first-ot-its-kind gay demo at a
prison where gay men are incarcef-
ated for non-violent consensual sex
contacts with minor males. The in-
mate population at this unit is 170
men. The number of admitted gay
men here tor statutory sex offenses
is 30. While 3 NAMBLA members
went Inside to visit Richard Peluso,
the rest picketed outside. The police
screamed: “0, my god! it's the fag-
gots! It must be Gay Liberation!”
After we marched back and forth in
cheering support and waving cloths !
from between the window bars — an
old cop said we’d have to move off
prison property. This meant about 15
yards to one side, we told him we
had finished the demo. While
Reeves and Mitze! put the placards
back into a car, a lumberjack type
butch character — who had taken
photos of us all {as well as snaps of
our license plates) — came up and
identified himself as James Burke, of
the U.S. Postal Investigators. He told
us to call him at his office. We then
took a picture of him. Why were the
feds recording a legal demo at a stale
facility? Where are the budget cuts
when we really need them?
RHODE ISLAJsiD
Sexual penetration with another person under 13 yrs. of age. Sexu<U
penetration means sexual intercourse, cutmilingus, fellatio, and
13
First Decree Sexual Asauli
(Chap. 37)
anal intrusion, or any other intrusion however slight, by any part of
(Sec. n-37-2)
a person's body or by any object into genital or anaJ opening (Sec.
(1979)
11-73-1. Definitions)
(Sec. lI-37-»)
Sexual contact with another person under 13 yrs. of age. Sexual
contact means the intentional touching of victim’s or actor’s in-
(1979)
limaie pans, clothed or unclothed, if that intentional touching can
be reasonably construed as intended by the actor to be for the pur-
Second Degree Sexual Assault
(Sec. n-37-6)
pose of sexual arousal, gratification or assault. (Sec. 11-73-1.
13
(1979)
Definitions) Intimate pans means the genital or anal areas, groin,
inner thigh or buttock of any person or the breast of a female. (Sec.
(Sec. 11-37.8)
11-73-1 , Definitions)
•
(1979)
Sexual penetration “with another person over the age of thirteen
(13) years and under the age of consent, sixteen (16) years of age.”
(Note: An earlier act, also in 1979, had amended this section to
16
Third Degree Sexual Assault
read: “Every person who shall commit an indecent assault and bat-
tery on a child under the age of thirteen years shall upon conviction
13
(Indecent Assault and Battery on Child
...” Neither of the 1979 amendments referred to the other, accord-
Under 13)
ing to the compiler of the bound volume of statutes. Indecent
assault is not listed in the Definitions, Sec. 11-37-1)
Assault with intent to commit first degree sexual assault
13
Assault iVith intent To Commit First
Degree Sexual Assault
NEW YORK
Note: Lack of consent by the victim is an essential dement of every
offense in Article 130 (except consensual sodomy which has been
(Penal Code, Art. 130,
Sex Offenses)
held unconstitutional). Lack of consent results from incapacity to
consent. “A person is deemed incapable of consent when be is (a)
less than seventeen years old; . . .*’ Sec. 130.05)
(Sec. 130.20)
(Sec. 130.3S)
Deviate sexual intercourse with another person without the latter’s
consent (i.c., below 17). Deviate sexual intercourse means sexual
Sexual Miscondu ct
conduct between persons not married to each other consisting of
contact between the penis and the anus, the mouth and the penis, or
the mouth and the vulva. (Sec. 130.(X), Sex Offenses; Definitions of
Terms)
n
(a Class A misdemeanor)
(Engaging in deviate sexual intercourse)
(Consensual Sodomy)
Note: This offense was not in the proposed Penal Law submitted to
the 1965 session of the Legislature, but the Legislature added it.
17
(a Class B misdemeanor)
and in 1977 it was held unconstitutional as denying equal protec-
tion of the law (in re P.. 92 Misc 2d 62. 400 N.Y.S. 2d 455 (1977)
'
which held that the right of privacy prohibits the state from
proscribing private consensual sodomy in view of the absence of
any indication that such sodomy causes public harm). Note that
persons under 17 are deemed incapable of consent. See Sexual
Misconduct. See. 130.20, above.
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NAMBLA ^fl:ws FALL tMl
The stale should have nothing to do with sex-
uality. This is. more or less, the position of
NAMBLA.
Alas, the heterosexual tyranny. Tilled lo the
brim with Je»-Chrisicr taboos, is ever increasing
its power and prerogatives over private citizen.'’
sexual behavior. Reccni atlcmpts lo change the
stair’s relation to patrolling sexuality, as for ex-
ample the recent ones in Washington, D.C., dem-
onstrate the task ahead. A bill to decriminalize sex
among children raised hackles from every Chnster
spook-peddler in that tormented city. This item
was quickly deleted. The sponsor of the refonn
package admitted that his proposals were meant to
streamline the rape laws, not do away with them.
Heightened awareness, discussion and legal tam-
perings with sex laws only mean one thing; more
slate scrutiny, more spying, more surveillance and
more arrests. More harpy screams of victimiza-
tion .
Hou can sutc intervention in sexuality be justi-
fied?
Well, one favorite lie from right-wingers is that
a strict tyranny of sexual repression is required to
keep the Amerikan family intact. If this kind of
sexual dictatorship is required to maintain the het
nuclear family, it would be best to let it go the way
of all bad things. Happily, the het nuke family is
already in rapid decay.
The liberals can’t really swing with this right-
wirtg lie. They need something more appropriately
pteudo-scieruifK and upacak' to make kgiiinute
massive state apparatus for hunting out and crim-
toalizing sexual dissenters. Liberals, however, by
and large share the fundamentai sexual assump-
tions of the rcaoionarics. Liberals still defer to the
repressive notion that any sex outside of het coupl-
ing is. at least, naughty and tidliating and, more
than likdy, psychologically dangerous and harm-
ful to those who engage in it.
With this kind of nonsense enjoying its current
cachet, it’s clear that we need a revolution in our
sexual ardtudes. And a revolution in artitudes is
not going to come about from the pro-status quo
liberals.
If the state's advocates can sell this idea that all
proscribed sex involves “victimization.” it is no
surprise that simple-minded and greedy opoortun-
isis would soon develop services lo fill ifie de-
mand. These names arc familiar to us now; Judi-
Ann C>enscn-Gcrbet. Det. Lloyd Mat Lin. Nurse
Ann Burgess and Nick Groth. Ail are in the busi-
ness of criminalizing, processing and ‘‘treating”
those who don’t match the repressive sex norm.
Their life’s blood is furthering the fallacy of sex-
ual victimization. They all believe in expanding
the concept of '‘sexual victimization.” it’s a
booming racket. It prospers off the ruined lives of
gay men and boy-lovers. Their prosperity regutres
Our misery.
This crew has spednealiy largctied NAMBL.A
for liquidation, as the recent raids <see front page)
demonsuatc. They have spread the foulest kinds
of lies about boy-lovers and NAMBLA. They libel
and smear deliberately, recklessly and with malice.
And they th/nk their evil will go unchecked
Weil, if these creatures can dish i( out, lei’s see
if their own seamy activities can beat a little sun-
light and scrutiny. •
$ THE VICTIMIZATION SCAM & ITS CLIP ARTISTS $
VICTIMIZATION RIP-OFF
ARTIST ffli
JUDI-ANN DENSEN-GERBER
From one perspective, it's just a great pity that
so many European Jews who came to America
chose secular assimilation. Were Judi today the
wife of some dark-clad rabbi (as she is the
daughter of rabbis), hovering on the fringes of
Amerikan society, her ranting and posturing
would be of no consequence. Alas, things have
turned out otherwise.
Many twisted anti -gay crusaders have come and
gone this past decade. Somehow wicked-witch
Judi hangs on. I thought she would fade from the
scene as the result of NY Atty. Gen. Abrams’ in-
vestigation into the charges of rampant abuses at
Judi’s drug-rehab scam, Odyssey House. Little
hz.> yet been is.sued from the A.G. Perhaps Judi
and her friends bought this one off. Anyone who
boasts of past close personal relationships with
Nelson and Happy Rockefeller, as Judi docs, is
surely capable of committing the foulest deeds —
and then boasting of them in a glad-song press
release,
I always thought the strange timing of her hub-
by’s firing as NYC's Medical Examiner at the
This is Judi- Ann Donseo-Gertier. She’s
known as “Jingle-Bells" Judi because once
when 8 drug addict inmate passed over at her
Odyssey House scam, Judi summoned all
the other inmates to gather around the stiff
and she sang "Jingle Bells.” Sick joke as
tribute.
same lime as the Abrams probe was launched indi-
cated a connection. Perhaps the probe was begun
because someone learned that Judi was shipping
the drug addict corpses from Odyssey to hobb>
who wrote up false death certificates so Judi’s
croak-quota wouldn't get too high. Wouldn't
want to interrupt the How of those lovely federal
funds.
That the New York press (even the left-wing
Guardiant) still swallow Judi as a legit source pro-
ves their gullibility — and their complicity in the
ongoing witchhunt. Judi’s abuses have time and
again been publicly documented. 'Yet, like the pro-
verbial bad penny, she keeps turning up. And like
any other brazen loud Jewish kvetch, .she won't
close that motor-mouth filled with lies. Every time
that fat trap opens, she jeopardizes public safei\’.
it is my fervent prayer each night — lo which-
ever god wilt listen — that some day, the legions of
drug addicts she cages and spits on and humilunes
at the Odyssey House jail will rise up in a spon-
taneous fit of righteous fury and quick!) put an
end to this blathering, dark, demented daughter of
dead Moses.
VICTIMIZATION RIP-OFF
ARTIST ^2 1
DET LLOYD MARTIN, L.A.P.D.
At one point. 1 wanted so much lo be the per-
sonal nemesis of Martin. A militant faggot with
pen-jn-hand bringing down a crooked, pro-fascist
Chrisier cop who hangs boys over cliffs and
threatens them wiih death unless they name boy-
lovers! What sweet justice it would be.
Alas, having seen Martin close up (in duo with
his mousy-cracker wife Beth) and watched him do
his travelling kid-porn show, I’ve decided my
talents deserve better than this tacky, two-
dimensional target. Martin and his wife arc
nothing more than ouitakes from John Waters's
Pot vest er.
And sure enough, we find Martin’s fat hand in
the recent NA.MBLA arrests. A bully like Lloyd
loves to beat up fags. Martin wa.s right there in
Los Angeles where John Sherman was nabbed.
Marlin is always phoning the FBI and postal in-
spectors lo see which queers he can snare next. It's
a buvv life. Why haven’t the ux-payers of L.A.
made Marlin account for his nation-wide crime
wave? Isn’t there enough trouble for him to make
in Los Angeles? Lloyd’s sort of like a smelly fart
in a crowded elevator; unfortunaieK everyone ha.'
to get a whiff before ii disappears.
Lloyd's roots?
He grew up a little hillbilly in Arkansas. His
own kind didn't want him so he was farmed out to
This snap of Del. Lloyd Martin was taken on
the TV as Lloyd was a guest on the "The 7(X)
Club” — a Bible-thumping hour. Lloyd was
there pushing his "victimization-kld-porn”
scam. Lloyd said on this show that pedo-
philes actually wail for babies to be bom so
that — - just minutes after birth — they can
grab the "post-fetuses" and ’’sexually victim-
ize" them. The Chrisier Host, duly scandal-
ized, asked viewers to cough up “Dollars for
Jesus," Lloyd’s cut was not revealed.
some other yahoo clan. He grew up a boy unloved
— so he says. He surfaced a.^ an adult in the
uniform of the parafascisi LAPD. He has done
well there. I have no information as to the numbei
of citizens Martin has killed, crippled or wounded
in the “Line of Duty” (as they quaintly call it).
But since Lloyd is sexually-repressed to the Nth
degree, he had to target L.A. faggots and bo>-
lovcrs for his special harassment. As a reward to
his repression.
And he hung Patricia Pruc's .sons over a cliff
and ordered them lo cough up names.
To see Lloyd in action on the kid-porn talk cir-
cuit leslines to the reality of the price of sexual
repression. He embodies everything ugly, ami-liie
and brutal in the Amerikan character. He plays at
being a big b-foot-5 He-Man. Law Enforcer, Real
Guy. Christ-Loving Family Man. But .screwed up
real tight somewhere in that walking stiff, there
must be something human, alive and semi-real
struggling to gel out. It ain't gonna make it. Too
late.
In his raps to audiences, Martin freely idemifies
himself as ”a pedophile.” I'm sure he is — an in-
operative one. He brags about how much he like'
to line up his hunky sons (the oldest is 19) and hue
and kiss them every night (in front of the wile and
the other h(iys).
Mv guess is that this .MI-.Anierlcan Thue
will soon move (or be tossed) oft the police bca;
and wind up on the $1000 a night Lecture Circuit
NAMBLA NEV^S FALL IWl
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VICTIMIZATION RIP-OFF
ARTIST NUTTY NURSE
DEAN ANN BLTIGESS
Nutty Nurse Ann Burgess, who runs the Boston
University Nursing Schoo/. is a brash new-comer
into the Viciimizafion Circuit But. like a meieo:
passing through the night sky, Burgess has flashed
brightly for just a minute and has turned to cold
ash.
Burgess got 50Gs from the feds to help set up
centers lo "rehabilitate victims of child por-
nography." When ! spoke to her several months
back, she told me she didn’t have any vjciints yet
for her program but was still on the prowl. For her
next fiscal year, she is asking the Reagan admim>-
traiion for a half million. Dollars. Not victims.
Who is this crazed nurse? Well, she arrived at
B.U.’s Nurse School with the installation of one-
armed, authoritarian B.U. Prez John Siltser. On
campus, she is known as a total creature loyal to
ami-gay Siibcr. Burgess actually brags about how
closely she works w’ith the FBI and law enforcers,
often inviting them onto campus.
I don’t know if Burgess is one of these anti-gay
lesbian types like Florence Rush. But when Tom
Reeves asked her if she was heterosexual, l.a Bur-
gess took 6 long seconds (I counted) to decide
what she was. Like Flo Rush, she’s one of these
establishment-oriented gay-haiers, who wants to
gel in on the ground floor of the attack on boy-
lovers. And these types will stoop to any cheap-
ness to put pteopie in prisons.
VICTIMIZATION RIP-OFF
APTKST Md-
NICHOLAS GROTH PhD
Wr’JJ finish off with Nickie Groih, and none
too soon. Nick’s son of a itew-comer lo this racket
too. Like his frierKl Nutty Nurse Burgess. They’ve
even co-authored some slimy litiic pro-victimiza-
tion propaganda book.
I find it difficult to write Groth’s name without
thinking of some grotesque malignant tumor,
^fme huge goiter on a fat person’s neck. Perhaps
the image fits.
Nick Groth advertises himself as ‘‘Doc,’’ but
he’s only a PhD, not an MD. When you write him.
and he writes back, you see how illiterate this PhD
is. Can’t spell. Usually I ignore such minor flaws,
but it’s hard not to notice when his very own sta-
tionery is emblazoned with "PhD" all over it.
(Roiarians, cops. Elks, etc.). He carries around a
suitcase full of rather dated kid and adult sex mags
lo pass around among smut-hungry convcnlion-
eers. He gives his rap about Roger, a 45-ycar-old
BL masochist who paid youths to shove things up
his ass. Roger died in 1979, perhaps in Martin’s
custody.
Freaks like Martin can be dangerous. On the
bright side, Martin is so obviously greedy, so
demonstrably stupid, aggressive and obsessed, it is
dear his fate will be something between Willy
Loman and Jack Ruby. I see him at some “Sky-
light Vista" room in a convention-sized Howard
Johnson. The dinner dishes have been cleared
away. The fat law enforcers unbutton their vests
and light up their smelly cigars ar>d snigger as the
kid pom is passed around. Well worth the $100 fee
to sec this stuff! Uoyd is into his rap, showing a
picture of Roger’s asshole with a dildo up it. Then
. . . suddenly , . . Martin turns blue . . . pitches
forward . . . and . . . well ... the ambulance ar-
rives too late . . . the CPR didn’t work; he only
spit up and then choked on his vomit. RIF Det.
Lloyd Manin. There’s a sea of hot faggot gism in
that special comer of Christcr Hell where crooked
cops who hang kids over cliffs go. And methinks
they’ve reserved you a special place. What a
wa-ste! Looking at those big cracker lips, you
might have made .a hot cocksucker. Maybe next
life around, ch?
Null) Nurst Burgess organrzed and played host-
ess to e " Victirriizaiion" conference in Boston in
.Maich. Members and supporters of .N'.AMBL.A
trashed ihi.'. conference and left Nuiiy Nurse just a
bundle of nerves. When asked why she helped
send BLs to prison, Burgess denied any role as
police agent. “Our job is to sensitize police about
the child moiesret once they have them in
CUSUKt S . "
Burges- i‘- a w, -/cried Jitiie old sioman. Bu< with
a sharp eye for a scam. If you have her over to diri-
ner, you might think about counting the spoons
af let she leaves.
.Ai her conference. Burgess showed some kid
porn .slides ihai cops stole from George Jacobs.
Burgess smirked, giggled, and made ribald re-
marks abovii pubescent boys in red underpani.s.
The largest ktd porn col/emon in the U.S. ts in the
possession o_f the htufty Nurse. Such a mistake.
The Pope must be green with envy, if he’s still
alive.
As to helping in the victimization racket. Nurse
is doing real fine. There is a young man named
Jim who lives in Boston. Jim is now 16 and is gay-
identified. When Richard Peluso pleaded guilty to
sex acts with a minor, Jim was the boy named in
the indictments. Jim’s name was given by police to
the Nutty Nurse. She needs victims, right? Burgess
arrived unanounced at Jim’s family home. She
wanted to talk to Jim and his parents about his
“victimization,’’ Jim told me that when La Bur-
gess tried to barge in, Jim’s father slammed the
door in her face. Nurse, injured, turned to her
friends the cops. Jim was picked up h> poli-cc and
taken against his wilt \o Nurtz's towering seragho.
There he was held for 4 hours and quesiione-d a:
length and ir detail aboui his sc\ history. Burgess
insisted he had been "scarred for liie." .lini was
bright enough to lie to the Nutty Nurse; she is so
stupid she'll never know the difference. Jim got
home safely. Bur when Nurse Burgess yaks on
about how she'.s an evperi in \ ictimology , darling,
she’s right on the mark. She practises the craft
herself. She'd probably hang kids over cliffs, like
her friend Lloyd Martin, if she could get away
with it. The muscle is surely there — some c*f lu'i
nurse hanger.v-on looked pretty hutch to me
I .see that Nicholas Grsith (see below) i.-- having
another victimization confab at B.Lf iho tall.
Alas. Nuiiy N'urt/'s name is nowhere to he seen on
the program. Dropped like a hot potato since she
botched the last kid porn confab. The Pall Ot The
House of Burgess. NAMBL.-k trashed a and made
her and Lloyd look like fools. No wonder ihe\
want to arrest us all. Well, murder will out and or
shit floats — whichever cliche fits.
Meanwhile she has all those butch nurse-- to
make it with. 1 recall that poor Ramon Navarro
died when the Ferguson brothers, pieces of trade
he picked up in Lloyd Martin's territory, showed
that lovely onyx dildo down his throat. Valentino
had given it to him. Perhaps, now that Nutty
Nurse is in repose, she can get one of her
girlfriends lo shove a fancy dildo (given her by
Martin? stolen from Roger’s collection?) down
her throat and make a quick end to her e.xpioit-
aiive existence,
Lackies lo fascists deserve no less.
Nickie runs the “Sexual Treatmcm’’ center in
the Connecticut Penal system. 1 have no informa-
tion as to any corvnexion between the correctional
system in that state and organized crime, but
rumors p»ersisi. Rumors also swept NAMBLA last
spring that Nickie was a "shock doc" — that he
zapped imprisoned BLs with juice as part of
“therapy." Who knows how Nickie heard the
rumor, Bm hear it he did. He ran out of the Nutty
Nurse confab to protest to the NAMBLA protest-
ors that he never had and never would use electro-
shock on sex dissenters. Groth, however, did not
volunteer what sadistic treatments he prefers to
electro-shocks (there are many) nor did he disclose
how it is he turns Connecticut queers into more
conforming citizens.
Is Nickie from a foreign country? He sounded
like some mittic-european in a Drac film.
You should see Groth and co-author Burgess
together. What a lively pair! Sort of the George
Burns d Grade Allen of the Victimization Circuit.
"Say goodnight, Nutty Nurse!" Nick wangled a
job out of the Conn. Correctional patronage-
merchants. We will not ask his political credcniiai.i
or whom he had to blow to get the job in that Maf-
run Slate. Meet Nick and you’d think you had on
your hands some Roman Polanski reject from a
pre-Sharon-Taie-dcath thriller. I’ve met Nick.
Now 1 carry garlic around. Just in case.
1 don’t know any of Nick's victims at the CT .sex
treatment center. But I’m working on it. Each and
every one of these men will no doubt have fabu-
lous — and incredible — stories of how the en-
lightened state of Connecticut and PhD Nickie
Groth have treated them. I'm here in docu/tien!
and publicize each and every abuse and transgres-
sion.
Nick Groth will certainly follow the pattern: .so-
called career of "victimization" turned into ram-
pageous transgressor of individual rights and
stomper of prisoners’ rights once he gets them into
his grip. Mad Doc Frankenstein. Changed hi,s
name.
Someday. Groth may mate with the Nutiy
Nurse or Old-Tcstamem .Advocate Jingle Bells
Judi. Nine months later comes the birth of Omen:
Port fV.
There’s one strong unifying theme shared by the
careers of all these so-called victimization experts.
Each and every one of them has a captive and
totally subservient population they can abuse and
terrorize at will. Their victims have no redress.
Lloyd Marlin has all L.A. to bump off. The
L.A. cops rank with Houston’s and New Orleans’
as the most brutal. Martin surely does his bit.
Jingle BcUs Judi Densen-Gerber has a building
filled with strung-oul black and Puerto Rican (and
a few whilcy) drug addicts. She pushes them
around and bills herself as a messiah. Son of like a
Jewish Jim Jones. Judi-Town here they come!
B.U.’s Nutty Nurse has a whole school to ter-
rorize. She stalks the streets for boy children to
whisk into her dykey den to brain-wash with hei
victimization mumbo-jumbo. A Broderick Craw-
ford in drag, she can give a kid the third degree to
beat the band. Hell of a price just for some blow
job. Ghouls like Burgess certainly can take the fur:
out of sex. This is their mission.
PhD Nickie Groth has a whole prison popula-
tion to experiment on and exploit. Dr. Mencle
could still be on the loose, claiming now that he's
solving the problem of victimization. And Jingle
Bells Judi would be the first to sign up. How limes
have changed! But frauds smell other frauds a
mile away, no matter the tenor of the regime. For
these snake-oil p»eddlers, faggots and BLs are ju.si
slabs on the decks, boys to get shocked, geeks to
get grilled, song-birds to be made to sing.
What Judi. Lloyd. Nurtz and Nickie have yet to
fully appreciate — so stupid they have never read
anything about Paris 1789-179? — is that when
the time comes and when the power shifts occur,
they’ll be out on their asses and hiding out from
those who will seek them out to make all of them
pay for each and every crime. 1 can hear the
squeaky tumbril now, on its path to its dcslination
— a fate these ancicn regimers so richly de.serve.
All in the na.mc of pseudo-science. Theirs. • i
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1., NONE OF THE NAMBLA MEMBERS WHO RESIDE IN NEW JERSEY A^E
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3. THE NEW JERSEY CHAPTER OF NAilBLA WAS FORMERLY LOCATED IN
THE apartment OF I
IN
NEW JERSEY CHAPTER IS ALMOST NON-EXISTENT AS BOTH
THE
AND
are CURRENTLY INCARCERATED FOR SEX OFFENSES AND[
]
HAS BEEN CONVICTED AND SENTENCED TO FIVE YEARS EACH ON FOUR COUNTS
OF SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH A JUVENILE MALE; HOWEVER, HE IS OUT
PENDING appeal.
4. all known MEMBERS APPEAR TO BE INACTIVE AT THE PRESENT
.TIME.
5. NEWARK DOES NOT HAVE ANY SYMBOL NUMBER SOURCES IN A
POSITION TO PROVIDE INFORMATION ON NAMBLA, HOwEVER, A COOPERATING
WITNESS IS available AND IS ABLE TO PROVIDE FIRST HAND INFORMATION
ON A limited NUMBER OF NaMBLA MEMBERS AND ASSOCIATES.
6. NEWARK has NO EVIDENCE THAT NAMBLA IS A FRONT FOR THE
GONDtlCT OF ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES.
7. THERE are NO KNOWN PRIOR I INVESTIGATIONS IN NEW JERSEY
WHICH COULD BE USED TO DEMONSTRATE A PATTERN OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITY.
8. NEWARK has NOt RECEIVED ANY INFORMATION WHICH WOULD SHOW
THAT NaMBLA MEMBERS' A RE ENGAGED IN aMY TYPE OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITY
PAGE THREE,, NEWARK 145B- 1506, jjHCLAS
OTHER THAN SEXUAL CONTACT WITH MALE YOUTHS. NAMBLA MEMBERS WHO ARE
incarcerated usually EMPLOY SOME TYPE OF MAIL FORWARDING IN
CORRESPONDING WITH OTHER MEMBERS OR , ASSOCIATES . THESE INDIVIDUALS
ALSO appear to CONVERSE FREELY ON THE TELEPHONE WITH ONE ANOTHER
BUT TOPIC OF CONVERSATIONS ARE NOT KNOWN. THE NaMBLA MEMBERS aND
THEIR associates are allied TOGETHER BASED UPON THEIR BELIEFS AND,
AS SUCH are DIFFICULT FOR INFORMANTS TO PENETRATE AND DEVELOP
INFORflATiON ABOUT THEIR ACTIVITIES.. A VIGOROUS APPROACH SHOULD BE
Taken toward prosecution of targeted nambla members/associates
WITH THE GOAL OF OBTAINING THEIR COOPERATION AGAINST NAMBLA. A
COOPERATING member/associate WHO IS CURRENTLY ACTIVE WOULD BE OF
MUCH greater value AS HE WOULD BE ABLE TO DETAIL THE INNER WORKINGS
and ACTIVITIES OF THE ORGANIZATION.^
9*. INVESTIGATION HAS SHOWN THAT INITIAL CONTACTS ARE NORMALCY
MADE BY NAMBLa MEMBER/ASSGCIaJES WITH POOR WHITE FAMILIES, OFTEN
WITH,.SINQLE PARENT* Nambla member wins OVER PARENT(S) by BABY-
SITTING or similar service WHICH GIVES parent RESPITE FROM CHILDREN
WHILE at THE SAME TIME'GIVES nambla MEMBER ACCESS TO THE CHILDREN.
DURING SEDUCTION PROCESS,' THE NAMBLA MEMBER GIVES POSSIBLY
PAGE FOUR, NEWARK H5B- 150.6, UNCLaS
financial ASSISTANCE AND A. DEGREE OF FREEDOM TO PARENT AND BUYS.
PRESPTS AND TAKES CHILDREN TO PLACES THEY HAVEN’T BEEN BEFORE IN
EFFO.RT TO COMPLETELY WIN THEIR TRUST AND RESPECT.
THIS INITIAL SEDUCTION IS OF vital IMPORTANCE TO 'NAMBLa AS
ONCE COMPL.ETED THE ■FAMILY IS UTILIZED AS A BASE OF OPERATIONS FOR
attracting OTHER POOR OR AFFECTION- STARVED CHILDREN IN THE
NEIGHBORHOOD. THIS IS ACCOMPLISHED BY CHILDREN BRINGING SCHOOL-
MATES OVER TO MEET NAMBLA MEMBERS AND PLaY WITH PRESENTS GIVEN
THEM BY NAMBLA MEMBERS, CHILDREN WILLINGLY COMPLY WITH NAMBLA.
MEMBER REQUESTS IN HOPES OF RECEIVING PRESENTS OR BEING TAKEN TO
ENJOYABLE PLACES.,
10. PREVIOUS INVESTIGATION BY NASSAU COUNTY, NEW YORK
DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE, DOCUMENTED THAT VICTIM CHILDREN FROM
NEW JERSEY WERE GIVp . train aND BUS TICKETS TO REACH LONG ISLAND,
NEW.YoRk. VARIOUS MEMBERS OR ASSOCIATES FROM AROUND COUNTRY WOULD
visit residence and engage in SEXUAL ACTIVITY WITH CHILDREN . THESE
individuals WERE SUCOESSFULLY PROSECUTED BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES IN
NEW YORK. THERE WAS NO KNOWN FALSE DOCUMENTATION USED TO FACILI-
TATE THIS activity.
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VIOLATIONS OF THE STATES LAWS REGARDING SEXOAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILD-
REN, THERE HAVE BEEN MO OCCASIONS THAT THOSE INDIVIDUALS ARRESTED
HAVE ANY AFFILIATION WITH THE NAMBLA ORGANIZATION.] ^ I ADVISED
ADDITIONALLY, THAT AS IS THE COURSE IN MOST OF THESE INVEST IG AT- IONS ,
SEARCH WARRANTS ARE USUALLY SECURED FOR THE RESIDENCE' OF THOSE INDI- , ,
VIDUALS ARRESTED. REVIEW OF GONFISCATb MATERIALS FROM THESE SEARCHES
, ■ i- %
HAS NOT REVEALED ANY TIES WITH THE NAMBLA ORGANIZATION, j IaDVISED
THAT IN GENERAL, MOST PEDOPHILES DO NOT ALIGN THEMSELVES WITH THE
NAMBLA ORGANIZATION, AS MOST ■ OF THEM ARE LOW-PROFILE PEOPLE AND WOULD
LIKE TO MAINTAIN A CERTAIN LEVEL OF ANONYMITY CONCERNING THEIR
SEXUAL PREFERENCES. THIS, OF COURSE, IS NOT THE POSITION TAKEN BY,
THE NAMBLA MEMBERS WHO LEGISLATE OPENLY FOR FREEDOM OF SEXUAL CHOICE ■■
OF CHILDREN HAVING SEX WITH ADULTS.
■REVIEW' OF PHILADELPHIA INDICES INDICATES NO POSIT IVE REFERENCES
TO ANY CAPTIONED INDIVIDUAL.
REVIEW, OF PHILADELPHIA DIVISION I45B CONTROL FILE REVEALS A
TELETYPE TO NEWARK, FILE 145-d5Il FROM PHILADELPHIA, FILE 145- 1157,
DATED JANUARY 18, 1983. THE FOLLOWING IS A SYNOPSIS OF THAT INFORMAr
TION:
ON JANUARY 1 1, 1985, 0FFICER| |, PHILADELPHIA POLICE
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DEPARTMENT, SEX CRIMES UNIT, 3701 FRANKFORD AVENUE,
WAS INTERVIEWED BY
AND FURNISHED THE FOLLOWING
INFORMAT ION:
ADVISED THAT :THE NAMBLA CONFERENCE HELD ON OCTOBER 9
THROUGH OCTOBER 11, 1983, IN PHILADELPHIA AT THE GAY AND LESBIAN
COMMUNITY CENTER, 222 SOUTH CAMAC STREET , PHILADELPHIA, WAS 'ATTENDED
BY POSTAL inspector!
AND HIMSELF.
|ADVISED THAT THE CONFERENCE WAS ATTENDED BY 75 TO 150
INDIVIDUALS EACH DAY AND THIS VAR LED' BASED ON THE DAY ’S AGENDA.,
IaDVISED that ALTHOUGH THERE WAS AN EXTENSIVE NUMBER OF TOPICS
ON THE AGENDA FOR DISCUSSION, IT WAS: HIS OPINION THAT AFTER SPEAKING
WITH SOME OF THE NAMBLA MEMBERS , THAT THESE MEET INGS WERE REALLY : be
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SET UP TO MAKE ."CONTACTS" SO THAT WHEN ONE MEMBER TRAVELS FROM- ONE
CITY TO ANOTHER, ANOTHER MEMBER COULD PUT HIM, UP AT HIS PLACE OR
DIRECT HIM TO A PLACE THAT COULD ACCOMODATE HIM.
IpOINTED OUT THAT PHILADELPHIA IS DEING CONSIDERED AS THE
L OCAT ION FOR NAMBLA ’ S NAT lONAL HEADQUARTERS FOR PH ILOSOPHIC AND
GEOGRAPHIC REASONS. HE ADVISED THAT BECAUSE PHILADELPHIA IS BETWEEN
WASHINGTON, D.C., AND NEW^ YORK, PHILADELPHIA IS MORE TOLERANT OF THE
GAY COMMUNITY AND AS TWENTY FIVE PERCENT OF NAMBLA’ S MEMBERSHIP
page four,
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LIVE IN THAT MEGOPOLIS, PHILADELPHIA WOULD BEST. SERVE THEIR PURPOSES
AS A "SAFE LOCATION" AS NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON, D.C., IS GETTING
ALSO STATED THAT NAMBLA’S LAWYERS ARE NOW MAKING WHOLE-
SALE REQUESTS FOR FOTPA ■ INFORMAT ION. IN AN ATTEMPT TO DETERMINE THE
E HE NT OF INVEST IGAT IVE EFFORT S AIMED AT THEIR GROUP . IT3 ADD IT ION ,
A FUNi3 HAS BEEN SET UP TO PAY OFF COMPLAINT AMTS WHO HAVE BROUGHT:
CHARGES AGAINST NAMBLA MEMBERS.
IfURMISHED THE FOLLOWING PARTIAL LIST OF NAMES TAKEN FROM
THE SIGN-IM REGISTER AT THE CONFERENCE:
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/O ST AL INSPECTOR 'S OFFICE, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYVAN lA , . AND OFFICER
~ I, PHILADELPHIA POLICE DEPARTMENT, SEX CHIMES UNIT, HAS,
SEEN RECONTACTED ALSO. UPON COMPLETION OF REINTERVIEWS OF BOTH. INDI-
VIDUALS, PHILADELPHIA DIVISION WILL FORWARD ANY ADDITIONAL INVEST. IGA N
TION CONCERNING NAMBLA ACTIVITIES IN THE PHILADELPHIA AREA.
INWSTIGAT ION CONTINUING.
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. NOT IffiPRESENT A COMPLETE COMPILATION OF INFOI^^i^ON, CONTAINED . AT
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INVESUGAT ION DIRECTED AT NAMBLA OR ANY. KNOWN MEMBERS GiF NAMBLA
shortly AFTER THE FORMATION OF NAMBLA, THE BOSTONiAREA ^
I® IVDUALS..-^ ACTIVE IN THE ORGANIZATTON AND MOST- VISIBLE .
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OF ANY PARTICLLAR OR SPECIFIC CRIMINAL VI0LAT ION ,
ALTHOUGH IT IS SAFE TO ASSUME THAT AT . A MINIMUM THERE
IS INVOLVEMENT IN TTOM MATTERS AND STATE AMD FEJ)ERAL
CR IMfNAL ST/YTUTES CONCERNED W ITH ENGAGING ^ IN SEXUAL
A-CTIVITY WITH MTNORS. \ ’ '
2 .■ W H ILE IN T HE PA ST ,
AND ^
APPARENTLY OCCUPIED LEADERSHIP
■PDSSIT IONS' IN THE .BOSTON NAMBLA CHAPTER, THEIR PRESENT
OR EVEN 'that OR THE . ORQANIZAT ION ITSELF IS NOT., KNOWN'. , ,
3. A LOCAL NAMBLA CHAPTER D ID EXIST , AND ' BOSTON' '
WAS THE SIT'e OF A NAMBLA CONFERENCE SEVERAL YEARS AGO , • .
BUT AGAIN , IT IS "NOT KNOWN WHETHER 'TKE. BOSTON CHAPTER
REMAINS 'ACr I VE.. ■ ' ■ *. . ' '
IN SEPTEMBER, 1984 ADVISED
FORMER
.-THAT HE COULD' FIND NO ONE DIRECTING THE EASTERN BRANCH v
OF NAMBLA, AND EFFORTS BY SOURCE TO CONT.ACT-|
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MEETINGS WAS THE GLAD DAY BOOK, ^ORE ,: PRESEOT,LY LOCATED AT
43 WIMip STREET, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS. FORMER I
HAD RELATED THAT HE OCCASIONALLY WENT THERE LOOKING FOR
MATERIAL THAT -MIGHT COME WITHIN THE LEGAL DEFINITION OF
THE child PROTECTION ACT (CPA) WITH NEGATIVE RESULTS. tHERE -
W AS , HOWE'TER , J AMPLE AMOUNT OF; MATER lAL BOTH BOOKS AND ,,
PHOTOGRAPHS^, DEPICTING YOUNG MALES IN SITUATIONS INVOLVING
NUDITY. , , '
A FEW BLOCKS FROM THE GLAD DAY BOOKSTORE Tn'BOSTON’S
"COMBAT ZONE", ONE CAN FIND NUMEROUS PAPERBACKS DEPICTING
SEXUAL ACTIVITY BETWEEN ADULTS AND CHILDREN , HOWEVER ,
ACCORDING TO THE U.S. ATTORNEYS OFFICE IN BOSTON^ THE
WR ITTEN WORD, EVEN W TIH CAR ICATURES ,. DOES-NOT CO^M^^
ILITHIN THE LIMITATIONS OF THE CPA ACT. THERE DOES
MOT APPIAR TO BE ANY i^MMBLA^ INFLUENCE AT THE PROPBTETOR ‘
LEVEL or THE STORE ,• HOWEVER , THERE ARE POSSIBLE ORGANIZED
CRIME CONNECTIONS. ; ; - ’ , ■' L
5. LBOSTPN AT PRESENT HAS NO SYMBOL SOURCES
POSH ION TO FURNISH/fIRST %HAND INFORMATiON, COt^^ CRIMIMAL
ACTIViriES OF ANY NAMBLA MEMBERS OF ASSOCIATES THAT;Ma'Y BE IN ' .
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WAS FURNISHING -
INFORMATION ON A VOLUNTAR ILY BASIS REGARBING NAMfLA A®
OTHER MATTERS, BUT FORMER SOURCE, WHO IS A PEDOPHIl.E',:v
WAS aOSED BY TELETYPE TO THE BUREAU PER- BUREAU
WAS NOT A NAMBLA t^EMBER AND HAD NO '
FORMER
FIRST -HAND IMFORMAT ION CONCERNING NAMBLA , ITS ACT IVIT lES OR
ITS ECMBERS, HOWEVER, DID FURNISH SOMETIMES USEFUL SECOND-HAND
INFORMATION AND WOULD POSSIBLY EE IN A POSITION TO FURNISH
SIMILAR INFORMATION IN THE FUTURE. V : ,
6. BOSTON HAS NO EnDENCE OR probable CAUSE THAT NAMBLA
IS A FRONT- IN THE BOSTON 'AREA FOR THE CONDUCT. OF ILLEGAL
• ACTIVITIES AS DEFINED UNDER THE NEW SEXUAL EXPLOITATION L
OF CHILDREN STATUTE, THE ITOM STATUTE OR THE/WST A STATUTE.
7. BOSTON IS NOT AWARE OF PREVIOUS INVESTIGATIONS
INVOLVING NAMBLA MEMBERS WHICH WERE NO SUCCESSFULLY
PROSECUTED BUT WHICH COULD BE USED TO DEMONSTRATE >
A PATTERN OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITY-. . > -
8. . BOSTON IS NOT AWARE^OF THE METHOD .OFi^ CO MM UN I CAT ION -
BETWEEN NAMBLA MEMBERS CONCERNING THEIR CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES,
PARTICULARLY SINCE THIS PRESUPPOSES BOTH AN ACT IVE BOSTON CHAPTER
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OF NAMBLA, WHICH BOSTON IS ’NOT CERTAIN EXISTS, AND A CONTINUING
CRIMINAL ACTIVITY BY SUCH INDIVIDUALS, BOTH OF WH ICH MATT-ERS
BO'SrON HAS NOT BEEN IN A POSITION TO ACCURATELY ACCESS , UP
TO THIS POINT.
9. BOSTON HAS NO INFORNATION AVAILABLE ’ON THE METHODOLOGY
USED FOR PROCURING AND’ THE LOGISTICS USED BY NAMBLA
MEMBERS TO ENGAGE IN SEXUAL ACTIVITTY WITH CHILDREN.
10. BOSTON HAS NO INFORpTION DEMONSTRATING THAT NAMBLA
OR rrs MEMBERS HAVE ENGAGED IN TRANSPORTING CHILDREN FOR^
SEXUAL PIRPOSES OR WHETHER FALSE DOCUMENT AT ION HAS BEEN USED
TO FA GIL IT AXE. SUCH ACT IV IT IE S.N , 7
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(1) > AFTm^A REVIEW OF THE INFOR»€ATIpN AVAILABLE AT THE
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AS HAVING SgME CONNEGTtcW • TO N AMBlAi . TIEESE INDIVIDUALS WE^
IDENTIFIED By Sa|
] DURING A SURVEILLANCE ON
OCTOBER 11 AND 12. 1981 . AND NAUBLA'S 5TH GENERAL MEMBERSHIP
CONFERENCE HELD AT TlffiN.GAT COMMUNITY CENTER. 241 WEST CHASE
STREET. BALTIMORE. MARYLAND j
PHYSICAL SURVElLLi^CE IDENTIFIED TWO VEEHICLES. BEARING
WASHINGTON. D.G. LIC]^SE T/^QB. WHOSE OCCUPANTS ATTENDED THE
MEETI^NG. THE TWO VmiCLES/AND I^QISTHEMED OWNERS AS
FOLLOWS:
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THE WASHINGTON FIELD OFFICE HAS NO INDICATION THAT
I I OR I I AFffi. INVOLVED IN CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES.
Vf (2) *A REVIEW OF THE LIST OF NAMBLA iffiMBERS. WHICH
BRdbKLYN-QUEENS SEIZED PERSUANT TO A SEARCH WARI^NT IN
DECEMBER. , 1982. FAILED TO IDENTIFY EITHER
OR
AS ^.ACTIVE NAMBLA MEMBERS.
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™ NEW YORK (BQ 183^^ (P) (C-20)
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TO ; DIRECTOR FBI--ROUTINE
ATTN: SSA
ORGANIZED CRIME SECTION,
^ ATTN: CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIVE DIVISION
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V-VICTIM^^ORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY LOVE ASSOCIATION (NAMBLA )
RICO; 00::HQ.
RE FBIHQ TT TO NEW YORK AND OTHER OFFICES v* JANUARY. 12 . 1985^ ' ^ .qo^
vfA APR .9 iSoa
AND NYG RESPONSE TO FBIHQ / viA^TELEirePE; FEBRUARY 20 . 1985. i
IN REFEHENGE FBIHQ TELETYPE RECEIVING OFFICES WERE REQUESTED TO
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^ PROVIDE INFORMATipNRELATI MATTERS, AS WELL AS A
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PROPOSED, INVESTIGATI^ -GAME PLAN*’ . TTILETYPE^ THAT
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;A conference would be SCHEDULIED by FBIHQ to coordinate SAID
V INVESTIGATION . ,
, ’ FTBIHQ IS REQUESTED TO ADVISE NYp OF PROPOSED DATE OF ABOVE
I CONFER^CE.
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FD-36 (Qev. 8-26-82)
TRANSMIT VIA:
□ Teletype
□ Facsimile
«| AIRTEL
PRECEDENCE:
□ Immediate
□ Priority
□ Routine
CLASSIFICATION:
□ TOP SECRET
□ SECRET
□ CONFIDENTIAL
□ UNCLAS E F T O
□ UNCLAS
4/22/85
DIRECTOR, FBI
ATTN: OCS/CID
SAC, PHILADELPHIA (183B-1992) (SQ 3) (RUC)
JUB JECT :
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NOfiTH^^^RICAN^^^^^/^ LOVE ASSOCIATION;
Re teletype to Philadelphia from FBIHQ dated 1/12/85^ /
and Philadelphia teletype to FBIHQ dated 1/25/85. ,
For information of FBIHQ, on 2/5/85 , | ~l, ^ — •
PHILADELPHIA POLICE DEPARTMENT, Sex Crimes Unit, Frankford ai^- —
Cottman Avenues, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was recontacted^ \
by SA| ~|was advised of the nature oy f\ )
the investigation concerning captioned subjects possible / /
involvement in the NAMBLA Organization.
I Ireiterated the statement given to writer by
his superior, Lieutenant! I No investigation is being conducted
by the PHILADELPHIA POLICE DEPARTMENT concerning the NAMBLA
^2j^Bureau fy
*T - Philadelphia (183B-1992) (SQ 3)
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U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE ; 1984 0 - 449-465
PH 183B-1992
Organization. He again stated that the NAMBLA Organization
has taken a more low keyed approach and has kept themselves
out of the public eye.
I ~| advised that if in the future, an investigation
is reinstituted into the NAMBLA Organization, he would contact
the Philadelphia Division of the FBI.
On 2/7/85, US Postal Inspectorl L
Philadelphia Office, was contacted and advised that there was
no ongoing investigation in to the NAMBLA Organization at
this time.
Similarly, Postal Inspectorl [advised that
the Philadelphia Division of the FBI would be contacted
if any investigation concerning NAMBLA was opened in the near
future. As Philadelphia has completed all leads, Philadelphia
is placing this case in an RUC'd status.
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ALL INFORHATIOI'I COHTAIHED
HEREIN IS DMCLA3SIFIED
DATE 11-08-2007 BY 60324/ AUC/BAW/STP /bis
Airtel
4/22/85
Director, FBI
SACs Baltimore
Boston
Los Angeles
Newark
New Haven
New York
Philadelphia
Phoenix
San Francisco
Vvasliington Field Office
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RICO; 00: NEW YORK
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Ident.
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Intell. .
Lab.
Legal Coun. _
Off. Cong. &
Public Affs. .
Rec. Mgnt.
Tech. Servs. _
Training
Telephone Rm.
Director's Sec'y .
Enclosed for each receiving office is one copy of
a report entitled "North Anerican Man/Boy Loye;^ssociation,
April, 1985" prepared by OGS/CID, FBIHQ.
Referenced teletype requested
provide information concerning NAMBLA mem,
violation of Federal law^s and who are us
association in NAMBLA to attain their ill!
ces to
be in
their
The objective of collecting this 'ijgfopaat ion is to
determine the extent of criminal interaetionsTetween various
NAMBLA members and to accumulate sufficient evidence to indict
those members identified as being part of an ongoing criminal
enterprise,
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Attn:
a® APR 25 1985
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Ai r t el to SAC . Baltiraore . ET AL
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Receiving offices are requested to review attached
report and provide any comments, or contemplated investigation
to FBI HQ, and New York.
In view Of the preponderance of information concerning
NAMBIA being in the possession of" the Hew Yotk Division, New York’s
expertise In investigatlhg sexual exploitation of children fSEOCl .
and New Yerk*s present handling of investigations entitled 1 I
I. et al; ITOM-SIOC; FBW" and ’I l-VictlBi; Kidnapping";
New York Is being designated office of origin for eaptioned
investigation.
, New York should continue efforts to compile individuals
identified as NAMBLA membets an,d/or associates both domestically
and ihternati'Qfially in the Organized Grime Information System (OCIS) .
New York should continue to update and further identify
those persons that comprise the N^BLA Steering Committee;- as well
as continue efforts'to locate the site of Steering Committee
meetings which are separate from general monthly meetings.
- New York should also continue to direct
leoncething NAMILA information and meml
Receiving offices are reminded, that all investigations
concerning SEOC should be entered into QCIS for the information and
benefit of other field divisions also conducting investigations^
FBIHQ is most appreciative of the efforts expended by
receiving offices in investigations concerning SEOC matters.
Enclosure
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TRANSMIT VIA:
□ Teletype
□ Facsimile
fflX AIRTEL
FBI
PRECEDENCE:
□ Immediate
□ Priority
□ Routine
V.
CLASSIFICATION:
□ TOP SECRET
□ SECRET
CONFIDENTIAL
UNCLAS E F T O
UNCLAS
Date 5/14/85
□
□
□
TO:
FROM:
DIRECTOR, FBI
SAC, WASHINGTON FIELD OFFICE (183B-1058) (C-6) (P)
, "N
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l-VICTIM:^ORTH ^RICAN
MAN/BOY LOVE ASSOCIATION ^AMBLA) ;
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RICO;
00: NEW YORK
Reference: Bureau teletype dated h 1211^5*
The Washington Field Office is continuing to pursue the j o
Br ooklyn-Queens /Washington Field Office investigation entitled
aka; ET AL; ITOM-SEOC; FBW; 00:BQ/* and "UNKNOWN SUBJECT(S);j
‘victim; KIDNAPING; 00 :BROOKLYN-QUEENS . "
This investigation, when concluded, should provide a great
of additional information into, the criminal activities of captioned subjects,
and the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) .
WFO and Brooklyn-Queens are presently preparing to conclude the
covert phase of investigation. Prior to conducting any overt
interviews of suspects in this matter, mail covers and pen registers will be
initiated in order to identify and document any communications which may link
suspects with Aach ol^her. This information may then be compared and analyzed,
utilizing" the :^port ^prepared on NAMBLA by OC^CID, FBIHQ^,..dh^d^
The Washington Field Office has/ ^d^ill conti^^ enterN^JJ/
SEOC investigative data into the Organized Crime^ Inf.ormatlpr^^^ (OCIS) .
C^^Bureau , ^
2-Brooklyn-Queens
2-Washington Field
MGT:phk
MAY liiOD
(6)
Approved:
i 1 '6 AUG 2
Transmitted
(Number) (Time)
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Per *
U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1984 0 - 449-465
WFO 183B-1058
Forthcoming information relative to NAMBLA, and its
members, obtained during the course of investigation will
coordinated with Brooklyn-Queens, and provided to the Bureau, and
OCXS, as appropriate.
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0-73 (Rev. 3-3V82)
Date:
PRECEDENCE:
FM: DIRECTOR, FBI
TO
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□ White House/WH/
□ Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms/BATF/
□ Central Intelfigence Agency/CIA/
□ CIADCD/DCD/
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n Dept, of Energy Germantown DIV/DOE/
□ Dept, of JustIce/DOJ/
□ Dept, of State/DOS/
□ Dept, of the Army/DA/
□ Dept, of Treasury/DOT/
□ Defense Intelligence Agency/DIA/
MESSAGE RELAY VIA TELETYPE
(RESTRICTED USE)
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ROUTINE
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□ Director Naval Investigative Service/DiRNAVINSERV/
□ Drug Enforcement Admin./DEA/
□ FAA Washington HQ/FAA/
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□ INSCOM Ft. Meade/INSCOM/
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□ U.S. Customs Service/UCS/
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□ U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service/INS/
□ U.S. Secret Service/USSS/
□ Other:
Subject:
DO NOT FILE WITHOUT COMMUNICATIONS STAMP
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USE AND PREPARATION OF FORM 0-73
Restrictions on Use
1 . ^Only^ncoming teletype messages within the categories listed in MIOG Section 1 6-1 .7 pages 1 251 & 1 252>may be fjrepared using form
V A ’• ’V ’ V-I. » '• % 4
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2. Use of Form 0-73 Is restricted to incoming teletype messages received at FBIHQ Communications Center within the last 72 hours.
.3. Addressees must be Bureau Offices (LEGAT/Field) or other Government Agencies. Geographical location must be indicated if other
' ' ^Government Agency is located outside the Washington, D.C. area.
4. Editing of message text is restricted to typed or printed changes of a word or two. Changes to the existing texUnvolving more than a
word or two wiil require the originator to initiate a new message using Form 0-93. Administrative data gay becadded immediately
following the text and must be identical for all addressees. ^ ^ ^
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5. Teletype meesages received by the Communications Center that do not meet the above criteria shall be^returned'to the originator for
preparation using Form 0-93. r - ' - ‘ J
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Preparation of 0-73 Form (Yellow)
1 . Date & Precedence r.1^yqe.or'.|:iJ^int date and in(^icate precedence by checking the appropriate box. g c:
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using block “Other,” indicate geographical location if addressee(s) is located outside Washington, D.C. If addressee(s) is a military
installation, the name of the base, fort, or station must be listed to ensure delivery.
3. Classification - Type or print the classification and if appropriate the caveat and warning notices.
4. Addressee Internal Distribution - Complete when the originator wishes the message to be distributed to a known entity within a
Headquarters Agency (i.e. Division, Section, Unit, etc.). List the addressee(s) abbreviation and the internal distribution, i.e. a message to
Dept, of State, Dept, of Justice, and Defense intelligence Agency: list on the “For” line(s) as follows:
Example: For: DOS For SY/TAG; DOJ for Asst. AG Criminal Div.; DIA For DSOP.
Messages which do not list internal distribution shall be delivered to the agency headquarters where their analyst will effect in-house
distribution.
5. Subject - Type or print the subject in the space provided or check “see attached” if subject is identical to attached message.
6. Originator’s Boxes - Type or print the originator’s name, telephone extension, room number, and division.
7. Approved By Box - Indicate approval for transmission by initialing the approved by box. Note: The person approving the message is
solely responsible for assuring all necessary editing changes are accurate and are legible.
Preparation of Message To Be Transmitted
1 . Duplicate Copy & Notations - Xerox 1 copy of the incoming teletype message. A notation shall be made on the original incoming
teletype indicating one copy made for relay to SACS , (or LEGATS) , (or Government Agencies)
2. Editing of Duplicate Copy (Heading) - Using a lead pencil ONLY draw single lines through the first and last lines of the message
heading; connect these lines from top right to bottom left forming a “Z” figure. (Do Not Obliterate the Heading)
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3. Editing Changes to the Text - (See Restrictions on Use, item 4)
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ATT HI pc' STCTIOMJ CIDj GENERAL CRITCS SECTION, CID
THE^ORtK AtlERXCAN MAN BOY LOVE A SSOCIA TION TNAMBLA) ; RICO;
UN SUB S;
I; ET AL; ITOM-SEOC; FBW; 00: NY.
VICTIM; KIDNAPPING; 00: NY., ROMFILE 7-2S.
REBUTEL' AUGUST 22, 1985, RECEIVl’D AT HOME AUGUST 26, 1985. ' ^
REFERENCE ALSO IS MADE TO ROMTELS DATED JULY 3, 1984 (| | ^
CAPTION); AUGUST 15, 1984 AND AUGUST 29 , 19S5 d I
Ai\Pl IGA PT IONS), fly
REROMTELS CONTAINED RESULTS OF INVESTIGATION BY ISRAELI POLICE
AS REPORTED BY THE THEN ASSIGNED LEGAT PERSONNEL.
4
ROME HAS REVIEWED ROME CASE FILE CONCERNING! I
IN CONTEXT OF THE INVESTIGATIVE OBJECTIVES SET FORTH FOR
THE VARIOUS INTERESTED OFFICES IN RE3UTEL. ■ AS A RESULT OF
THAT REVIEWN ROME OFFERS THE FOLLOWING OBSERVATIONS AND SETS
FORTH THE FOLLOWING RECOMMENDATIONS:
IX
PAGF IV C RON 7-26 UNCLAS- F F T 0
ir^VESTIQAT lOM I!7 ISRAEL, PARTICULARLY THE INTERVIEW’S
OF ISRAELI NATIONALS, WOULD '3E ’ CONDUCTED 3Y ISRAELI POLICE
AUTHOR IJ IEJ._ JJE.J?EOUEST FOR INTERVIEWS OF ANY ISRAELI
^-ATICf-JALS ON BEHALF OF THE. FBI WOULD BE COMMUNICATED TO THE
INTERPOL SECTION OF THE T^AFLl POLICE BY ROHE LSGAT. THEREAFTER,
INVESTIGATION WOULD BE CONDUCTED AND REPORTED BY THE ISRAFLI
POLICE WITHIN THE LFQAL A^® OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS OF THAT SERVICF.
A REQUEST CAN BE MADS TO THE ISRAELI POLICE AUTHORITIES FOR
SUPPLEMENTAL INVE SI' IG ATIC/M IN ISRAEL CONCERNING THE BACKGROUND
TO THE PHOTOGRAPH OF|
]that appeared in "REVICTA HEA”.
THE REQUEST FOR INVESTIGATION CAN BE COMMUNICATED DIRECTLY TO
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ISRAELI POLICE HEADQ.Ug'^pS,-. llEkuS^LJ? f^t Afo/OR '
FBI AGENTS TRAVELING FROM THE US. EITHER WAY THE INVESTIGATION
WILL BE COfDUCTED BY THE IS?AELI POLICE AND, IN ALL LIKELIHOOD,
WOULD Of^Y INCORPORATE WHATEVER QUESTIONS WERE PROPOSED BY THE
VISITING AGENTS DURING A PRIOR BRIEFING AT ISRAELI POLICE
HEADQUARTERS,
PAGF TfREE ROr'!- 7-2S UN CL AS E F' T 0
SEpOIOLY, TRAVEL TO A COUNTRY IN LEG AT TERRITORY OUTSIDE
THE HOST COUNTRY IS CONDUCTED PURSUANT TO THE WRITTEN CONCURRENCE
OF THE US ambassador ,IN THAT COUNTRY AND IN COORDINATION WITH TH^
INTERESTED US EMBASSY COMPONENT, USUALLY THE REGIONAL SEClfRITY
OFFICE. THE WRITTEN -CONCURRENCE ISA SIMPLE, BUREAUCRATIC
FROCFDURF, HOWEVEr-i, IT I S A REOUISITE FOR TRAVEL TO THAT COUNTRY
A^D REQUIRES PRIOR LE3AT COORDINATION.
THIRDLY, THE PERIOD SEPTEMBER IS THRU 30, 1985, IS A PERIOD OF
TIME INI IN ISRAEL DURING WHICH MAJOR RELIGIOUS HOLIDAYS ARE
CBSEHVED. THE HOLIDAYS OCCUR ON THE 16, 17, 25 AND 30 TH. ON
THOSE FOUR DAY S G OVER NMENT OFFICES ARE CLOSED.. THERE I S DECREASED
BUSINESS. AND GOVERNMENT ACTIVITY DURING THIS PERIOD. THER>^FORE,
LEGAT COORDINATION WOULD 3F REQUIRED DURING THIS PERIOD IN ORDER
TO ARRAJ^SE A MEETING DATE WITH THE ISRAELI NATIONAL POLICE AUTHORITIES.
ROME CONSIDERS THE ISRAELI POLICE TO BE A COMPETENT AND
EFFICIENT SERVICE BASED ON THE LIMITED RESOURCES AT ITS DISPOSAL.
ROME ENJOYS AN EXCELLENT RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ISRAELI POLICE AND
HA.S CONSIDERASLE CONTACT WITH THAT SERVICE IN THE FORM OF WRITTEN
A® VER^BAL COMMUNICATIONS. ROME BELIEVES THAT THE INVESTIGATION CON-
DUCTED ^ THE mAELI POLICE IN If3^AEL WAS AS COMPLETE AN INVFSTIGA-
T!c;^ AS Pf^SSIBL?: SAS’^D 0» THE AvAILABEF INFORMATION. IT VOutD
APPEAR THAT THE RFSILTS Of THAT IMVESTIGATION, ALBEIT LIMIT=-D,
REPRESENTED A SINCERE A^D PROF-ESSIONAL ATTEMPT BY THE ISRAELI
POLICE TO RESOLVE THE EVENTS LEADING TO THE PUBLICATION OF THE
PHOTOGRAPH OF I L
ROME ACKNOWLEDGES THE SIGNIFICANCE OF CAPTIONED INVESTIGATIONS
Af® IS MOST WILLING TO PURSUE ANY AND ALL SUPPLEMENTAL INVESTIGA-
TION IN ISRAEL CONCERMIMG THE PlBLlCATION OF THE ABOVE PHOTOGRAPH.
HOWEVER, GIVEN THE RESULTS OF INVESTIGATION TO DATE 3Y THF ISRAELI
POLICE, ROME IS NOT CONVINCED THAT ANOTHER REOUEST FOR INVESTIGA-
TION CONCERNIN3 THE MATTER PREVIOUSLY ADDRESS WOULD PROVE PRODUCTIVE
FOR THPJ FBI. FIRTHER, ROME LEGAT I S.' CO NCERNED THAT A RFOUEST TO
REPEAT INVESTIGATION ALREADY CONDUCTED BY THE ISRAELI POLICE
WOULD BE PERCEIVED BY THAT SERVICE AS REDUNDANT AND AN INSULT TO
THE PROFESSIONALISM AND INTEGRITY OF ITS OFFICERS. AT THIS TIMF,
ROME WOULD STRONGLY RECOMMEND A DIFFERENT COURSE OF ACTION. THF.
alternate -COURSE OF ACTION WOULD BE TO REQUEST A LETTER ROGATORY
F0R THE INTERVIEWS OF THE VARIOUS EMPLOYEES OF
"REVIETA MEA" CONCERNING THE PUBLICATION OF THE ABOVE PHOTOGRAPH.
ROME BELIEVES THAT THF ADVANTAGES OF A LETTER ROGATORY REQUEST FOR
THF SUPPLEMENTAL INVESTIGATION DESIRED BY FBIH3 OFFERS THE
FOLLOW n^G:
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•30'v'FRFMFNT OF ISRAEL AMD THFRFSY HEIGHTrlJ THF POLITICAL A’i'ARFM^SS
GP' IMF INTFRFSTED IDriAFLl OFFICIALS COi‘3C5:RNlL'G IMVESTIG ATIOfv
DFSIRFD BY IMF FBI,
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VOICE OF THE NORTH AMERICAN MAN /BOY LOVE ASSOCIATION
vol. 6 n. 3
$2)
Australian Lesbian Teacher
Battles for Her Job
by David Fagan and Merle Woo
A teacher's right to speak publicly
on controversial issues is at
. the heart of a battle being
waged by Australian school teacher
and socialist feminist lesbian Alison
Thorne. Thorne, organizer for the
Victoria branch of the Freedom
Socialist Part and Radical Women,
recently visited Los Angeles, pub-
licizing her case.
On one. side are Thorne, unionists, ■
civil liberties advocates and femi- .
nist and lesbian/gay activists; on
the other are vacillating public
officials, some union bureaucrats, ■
and a right-wing radio station bent
on driving Thorne out of her profes-'
sion.
The furor erupted when Thorne, a
secondary school teacher in Mel-
bourne, Victoria, was interviewed by
3AW radio station' regarding- the
November 5, 1983 arrests of nine ’gay
activists in the"^ Pedophile •'Support
Group, a discussion and consciousness-
raising organization. The arrests
followed the; taping of six of the
group's meetings by a police spy.
Speaking for the Victorian Gay.
Legal Rights Coalition, Thorne de-
plored the arrests as part of an
anti-gay witchhunt. She labeled the
vague and archaic "conspiracy to
corrupt public morals" charge' leveled
against the nine men as a dangerous
threat to civil liberties. And she
stated that while she was vehemently •
opposed to the sexual exploitation of
children, she questioned the neces-
sity for age of consent laws.
The following day, 3AW talkshow
host Derryn Hinch repeatedly broad-
cast an edited version of the .inter-
view. He identified Throne as a
teacher, declaring, "I would not let
this woman teach my child."
The interview was pounced upon by
the news media -in Victoria/ Sensa-'
tionalist newspapers ran lurid front-
page headlines about the "Sex at Ten"
schoolteacher. Television reporters
hounded her at home and in the class-
room.
A statement issued by Thorpe's
lawyers on her behalf defended her
right to speak out and stated that
the interview presented a "distorted
and inaccurate picture" of her views.
.This was universally ignored by the
right-wing media.
Some voices of reason emerged, how-
ever, Justice Kirby, chairman of the
Australian Law Reform Commission,
stated that while an arbitrary age of
legal consent is convenient,, "it is
not always relevant or just." Respond-
ing to the media blitz against Thorne,
he added, "a person should [not] be
punished, for making the, suggestion
(to lower the age of cb’nseht] by de-
nunciation in the media."
Initially, Victorian Minister of
Education Robert Fordham, for the
Australian Labor Party, agreed. He
defended Thorne's right to free
speech when, in state parliament, the
reactionary Liberal Party called for
her firing.
But Fordham soon capitulated. On
November 11, 1983, despite support
for Thorne from students and. parents ,
he "temporarily” transferred her to
administrative duties in the Victor-
ian Department of Education.
A vigorous defense
The battle to win Thorne's reinstate-
ment has won widespread support.
The Technical Teachers Union of
.Victoria (TTUV) backs Thorne's fight
as a civil liberties issue crucial
to all public employees. The union
agrees with Justice Kirby oh the nee^
'CtASSmKaJwrnS FWitR’IDm ;
CMW$tlANVARinVr
Alison Thorne
for rational and sensible discussion
of age of consent laws.
A TTUV- sponsored defense committee,
comprised of union members, civil
libertarians, and lesbian/gay activ-
ists, has organized to keep up the
pressure on Fordham.
Gathering national
and International support
The Australian Labor Party (ALP) in-
cludes support for gay rights in its
platform, and Thorne supporters have
won the endorsements of six ALP
locals for the call to reinstate her.
Other support for Thorne includes
aboriginal organizations, the Vicr
torian Council for Civil Liberties’,
Victorian AIDS Action Group, Stone-
wall Collective, Gay Solidarity
Group, the Victorian Secondary
Teachers Association, the Freedom
Socialist Party and Radical Women.
A resolution was passed on
Thorne's behalf at the Interna-
tional Gay Association Confer-
ence at Helsinki, Finland, July
1984; and a demonstration was
held outside the Australian
Embassy . in Sweden. Hundreds of
petitions and letters, includ-
ing many from the United
States , have been sent to . Ford-
ham, and Thorne's case has re-
ceived significant attention in
the gay, feminist, and radical
press. "I'm absolutely thrilled
by these heaps and heaps of
support from all over the
world," said Thorne during an
interview in Los Angeles,
"People think that a letter
from overseas, petitions, let-
ters to ambassadors don't do
anything. But let me tell you.
Minister Fordham is becoming
very embar r.assed . "
Fighting on two fronts
In January 1984, Fordham told Thorne
that she could return to teaching if
she found a school that would take
her. Three schools offered immediate
. ' continued on page 4
Page 2
CHILDHOOD SENSUALITY CIRCLE HAS FOLDED
Childhood Sensuality Circle
was an educational and lay research
organization for the total libera-
tion of children. The emphasis was
on the elimination of ageism; that
is, discrimination because of age,
which occurs most often in the
early and late years of life.
Membership was open to every-
one. Childhood Sensuality Circle
was not a pedophile organization
and was not involved in any porno-
graphic activities.
Since July 1, 1984, Childhood
Sensuality Circle has been defunct
due to lack of membership and the
falling health of its founder, 84-
year-old Valida Davila.
Davila is a student of Dr.
Wilhelm Heich, a physician who was
a pioneer in the field of human be-
havior, including the sensitivity
to the sexuality of both adults and
children. From a July 1983 pam-
phlet put out by Childhood Sen-
suality Circle are the following
excerpts :
To live a full life is every
individual*s birthright. We
advocate the total liberation of
children, not to confer on them
the same legal status as adults,
but to accord them the opportu-
nity to be all they can as chil-
dren. Denying any people of
their rights because of their age
is a prejudice that we term age-
ism. We advocate the elimination
of ageism and equality between
the sexes.
We encourage self-determination
for persons of all ages in all
areas of their lives. Social and
economic categorization based on
age, sexual orientation, race or
physical appearance is recipro-
cally destructive, and we would
like to see this conviction take
root among those who are com-
mitted to basic change.
Part of this statement was
read over Channel 8, San Diego,
by Davila February 12 on their 8
p.m. newscast and again on the 11
p.m. newscast. There was also an
interview with Davila’s attorney
Geraldine Russell. □
Reprinted from GAY P)ED
Feedback
Unless permission is specifically given to
do otherwise, names of contributors to this
column will not be printed. Letters will be
identified by city and state only.
Opinions expressed in the feedback column do
not necessarily reflect NAMBLA's positions.
Letters are presented in the spirit of a free
and uncensored forum of ideas.
•
To whom it may concern,
I want to tell you about an
incident that happened to me
involving the NAMBLA Bulletin.
I am a professional clergyman, 30,
living and working in the New Jersey
area. I consider myself a reasonably
stable family man, married with two
wonderful sons aged 7 and 5. I also
happen to be a boy -lover. My wife
and I have what I consider the
healthiest relationship I know of.
She is fully aware of my love for
boys and understands all the
reasons. She is neither threatened
or angered by my confidential
identity and closeness to males.
Quite frankly, my wife is very
grateful for what she knows is my
total devotion to her and our two
^ sons. I feel I am probably the most
fortunate boy -lover of all because
while my public life must follow
societal hypocrisies ^ at least my
private life can be liberating. I
can live honestly in my own home.
Boylovers in the truest definition
of the word would never have a
relationship of ANY kind with a
boy without the boy* s consent. And
boylovers think first of the boy*s
welfare and best interests before
their own. I know many boylovers who
have sacrificed a great deal for
boys they have met just to help
those boys escape the concentration
camp family environment they were
running from.
Anyway, I met a young friend who
will be 18 next March. One day he
came to my office and asked me to
help him find work. He was down on
his luck and after a while he told
me of his family life: his mother is
always crying or trying to please
his father who drinks himself into
oblivion each night to assuage his
guilt about his failures in life. My
friend cold me how he had just left
his father after his father started
smacking him around. My friend is
bright and articulate. He is very
sensitive and he absolutely craves
approval. I gave him some work to do
around the church and he was so
eager to do the job to my fullest
satisfaction.
Eventually we grew to be close
friends and he often told me how
glad he was to be my friend. He knew
that I cared about what happened to
him. He could turn to me if he
needed to. And believe it or not,
there was absolutely no sexual
feelings on my part for him. Bill is
attractive but I am not led around
by my genitals. I was tired of
people taking advantage of this kid.
Anyway, Bill felt easiness to share
with me his innermost thoughts.
Sometimes it was hard to shut him
up. He would talk on and on about
girls, the car he wants to buy
someday, the places he wants to
travel to.
One evening Bill came over and
asked if we could talk for a little
while. I said sure why not. We
hopped into my van and Bill brought
along a surprise, four beers he had
swiped from his dad’s private stock.
Bill said his dad would never miss
it and besides he felt he was
helping his dad escape a deeper
drunkenness later on when maybe he
might beat on Bill’s mom again. So I
relented and even had one beer
myself. I actually saw no harm in
it. We parked along the major
highway in an abandoned parking lot.
We resumed our talking on the rug in
the back of the van. Much to my
surprise, Bill sat very close to me.
We talked about everything and
nothing. Finally after a prolonged
silence. Bill began rubbing my arm.
I couldn’t believe it. My first
impulse was to pull away. But no,
why should I? We weren’t hurting
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AUSTRALIAN LESBIAN TEACHER
BATTLES FOR HER JOB
continued from page E
employment, but the Minister reneged
on his promise, saying her case was
too controversial.
On April 10, while negotiations
continued between TTUV and Fordham,
Thorne was hit with a libel suit by
Derryn Hinch and 3AW radio because of
her statement that they had mali-
ciously edited her interview. TTUV
lawyers are defending Thorne in this
suit, which has not yet gone to court.
Organizers in the Thorne case feel
that 3AW's suit underscores the free
speech issues in her fight. They
point out that by maintaining pres-
sure on the Minister of Education to
keep Thorne out of the classroom, and
by dragging Thorne and TTUV through
a lengthy, expensive, and possibly
ruinous court fight, the "notoriously
anti-union station hopes to intimi-
date all public employees from speak-
ing out on controversial subjects."
• In May 1984, all conspiracy charges
against the Pedophile Support Group
were dropped.
Thorne continues to be undeterred
from seeking reinstatement. In Sep-
tember 1984, she applied for trans-
fers to 14 different Technical
Schools. In November, the Appoint-
ments Board sent out a memo granting
her. transfer from her administrative
position to a teaching position at
Tottenham Technical School. However,
Victoria's Premier, John Cain, denied
her appointment and said the govern-
ment did not regard Thorne "as a
person appropriate to be placed in a
classroom. "
In December, Thorne found herself
back on administrative duties. The
government used the obsolete Section
63.2, Teaching Service Act, which
justifies a transfer "in the public
interest."
But Just four months previously, in
August, "lawful political belief",
the right to free speech and associ-
ation, became protected activities
under Australia's Equal Oportunities
Act. As a result, Thorne's Defense
committee is appealing her case to
the Equal Opportunity Board and has
written a letter to the Director
General of Education demanding the
reasons for her transfer in writing.
If the Director General's response
admits the political motivation for
Thorne's transfer, the committee is
prepared to take , the Education
Department to the Supreme Court.
Backlash 1n Victoria
The Australian lesbian and gay move-
ment has accomplished tremendous
political gains in recent years. In
New South Wales, immigration laws
were changed prohibiting discrimina-
tion against lesbians and gays. In
the states, homosexuals were included
in anti-discrimination laws, and in
the schools, gay issues are beginning
to be discussed in Health and Human
Relations courses.
But the rising right wing, in the
midst of a worldwide economic depres-
sion, has begun to beat the anti-gay
drum. They have latched onto the AIDS
epidemic. According to Thorne, "The
right wing is whipping up a panic,
saying that lesbians and gays are
child molesters, corrupters of youth,
and spreaders of disease."
But Alison Thorne will not let the
Australian right wing stop her. "I'll
never quit," she says, "no matter how
long it takes, no matter how compli-
cated the fight gets. I couldn't call
myself a revolutionary feminist if i
did. We will keep pushing the union
to get them to do what they should
be doing: representing the teachers
and fighting for our right to free
speech. And we will fight the right
wing and anyone who will discriminate
against us on the basis of sexuality
and political ideology."
Thorne and her supporters are
determined to win. They urge civil
liberties advocates to contact Der-
ryn Hinch, c/o 3AW, 382 Latrove St.,
Melbourne, VIC 3000. Australia, and
demand that the libel suit be dropped
immediately. Q
Letters calling for Thorne's reinstatement
can be sent to Minister Fordham, c/o Parlia-
ment House, Sprint St., Melbourne, Victoria
3000, Australia. Copies of these letters
should be sent to the Alison Thorne Defense
Committee, Box 334, Fitzroy, Victoria 3065,
Australia.
[Reprinted from COMING UP! (San Francisco)
March 1985}
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anyone. What we were doing was
perfectly healthy. Here I made sure
to always keep myself in check from
being attracted to Bill and all the
time I never bothered to consider
his attractions. Well, one thing led
to another and before you knew it we
were involved for the full nine
yards. It was beautiful, just
beautiful. Enough said.
What is relevant is that the
police show up — one state trooper
in a car. That bastard made sure to
sneak up on us like a cat ready to
pounce on its prey. All of a sudden
while Bill and I were in the most
intimate embrace this member of New
Jersey’s finest decides to shine his
flashlight in from the front
windshield. He saw us and he was
ablaze with fury. He demanded that
we open the van immediately. He
began to bang on the van. I was
frightened, trying my best to get
some clothes on. Get out of the car,
he tells us. "What’s your name," he
asks. Bill gives a false name.''Oh I
see you are drinking^^ in here ''he
says. How old are you? he asks. Bill
lies again and says an older age. It
was then that I realized the danger
we were both in. It is what NAMBLA
has been fighting ever since it was
formed ^ — age of- consent laws.
Then in a flash Bill jumps away
from the officer and runs away into
the woods. He looked like a
frightened deer and to think we were
so happy together just a few short
moments ago. This tyrant with the
law • on his side could have pulled
his gun out and shot my friend. Now
the cop just had me to contend with.
He searched through my things and
told me how ashamed I should be,
what with me being a minister and
all. The officer is pissed that Bill
fan and I remembered NAMBLA once
having an article on this very
thing, and how one should conduct
oneself if ever in just this same
situation. I shut my mouth. He
baited me to tell him Bill’s name. I
refused and asked if I were under
arrest. He said it all depended on
how cooperative I was. Then I told
him I would cooperate in any way
possible but I would not tell him
any names. I asked him again if I
was arrested. He said vaguely yes. I
said I hadn’t had any of my rights
read to me and I damn sure wasn’t
going to say anything until my
lawyer came. This rookie cop drove
me around in the back of the’ car
locked in, while he tried to find
Bill. He kept getting madder and
madder. He kept encouraging me to
talk. I wouldn’t. I was too scared.
I never had been arrested for
anything before in my life. He still
tried ^ to find Bill alongside the
road. He shined his spotlight on the
brush looking for any movement. He
was stalking Bill like hunters stalk
animals. What a nightmare!
Finally the officer decides he has
had enough games. He stops the car
and tells me to get out. I clearly
thought he was going to hit me. But
no, he decides to handcuff me behind
my back. Then we drove the long
drive down the highway to the state
trooper headquarters about ten towns
away. Finally we arrive at the
stationhouse and the officer’s
police buddies are there. I am
escorted to a holding cell subject
to all kind of viewing by fellow
officers wanting to see the faggot
that got caught in the act of
sucking cock. The officer all of a
sudden acted like my friend. He said
"sympathetically" that if he were to
write me up for what he saw it would
be rather embarrassing so if I would
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Editor
The Connection
P. O. Box 601
Huntington, N.Y. 11743
Dear Sir:
The picture your article, "Our Man/Boy
Love Problem and Mine" by Mitchell
Halberstadt In your December 14-28, 1984
issue, presents of the relationship between
NAMBLA and the Cay and Lesbian Youth
of New York Is distorted and incomplete.
Two remarks were quoted in the article.
Anthony Riley said, "They're disgusting,
gross - they exploit minors.", while Stan
Isaac said, "We at GLYNY have come to
the conclusion that NAMBLA focuses on
exploiting and degrading children." It is
unclear to u$ what basis they have for
these statements. Neither NAMBLA's
actions nor its positions could justify
either statement. However unfounded,
vilification is nothing new to us.
The current leadership of GLYNY may
prefer to ignore it but the following
history should be recalled. Both GLYNY
and IPLYG were incorporated by a
NAMBLA member who donated his legal
services. During the 1980 Cay Pride Week,
GLYNY and NAMBLA co-sponsored a forum
on intergenerational relationships. In 1983,
Bill Andriette, a NAMBLA spokesperson,
was on the steering committees of both
NAMBLA and GLYNY.
Although past administrators of GLYNY
never endorsed NAMBLA's positions, they
behaved in a manner appropriate to
organizations engaged in a common
struggle for liberation.
The published position of GLYNY's
officers in acting as police informers
against those relationships and only those
that they disapprove of is despicable. That
they probably acquired their attitudes from
social workers who would rather administer
than empower gay youth cannot excuse or
condone them.
Yours in liberation.
Bob Rhodes
NAMBLA Spokesperson
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just tell him who I was with he
would just give me a loitering
ticket and a ticket for open
alcoholic beverage in the car. I
smelled a rat and remembered that
NAMBLA article again. These people
really are the enemy. Naive jackass
me. How stupid could I be not to
realize that. Then the officer
sifted through my personal
belongings. One thing for sure: If
you are ever arrested, just remember
you are at the mercy of some pretty
vicious people who have the law on
their side.
As you know the NAMBLA Bulletin
comes to each subscriber in a sealed'
manila envelope. Well, I had just
gotten mine that day and had stuck
it in my briefcase to read some
other time. Sure enough he found it.
Was he enraged! Now treatment got
worse and finally he read me my
rights. He still asked me who that
other person was that I was with. No
comment. While I am in the holding
cell he shows off the NAMBLA
Bulletin to all the other policemen.
They look at the magazine and then
they look with disgust at me. But
one of them (probably the brightest
in the group) shook his head and
said it was legal. Yes it was legal
to possess a NAMBLA Bulletin.
He wanted me to sign that my
rights had been read properly to me.
I refused and asked for my attorney
to be called or my wife." YOUR WIFE*
he gasps.'' You are married?" Yes, and
you?" Never mind," he frowns. "Does
your wife know about you," he asks.
"Yes," I smile, but thank God she
doesn't know about people like you.
He frowns." OK, it is back in the
holding cell for you.** Finally I get
a chance to call my lawyer, an old
school buddy I must now speak to
about what before was only known to
a select few, I was allowed to leave
the police station on my own
recognicance. The criminal charge
was twofold; one for performing
fellatio on another male in public
view which would be offensive to
others and the other was. for
obstructing justice by not revealing
the other person's name that I was
with. There were also two tickets
given; one for loitering and the
other was for having open alcoholic
beverage in my vehicle.
As I was dejectedly leaving, the
officer arresting me said off the
record that what I had done turned
his stomach and that he was going to
make sure that "others" hear about
this. I stared at him. First to kill
him and then to forgive him. He also
said that he could have had my
vehicle towed but decided to be nice
to me. By the way, he kept my NAMBLA
Bulletin and when I asked for it
back he didn't know anything about
what I was talking about! I almost
offered to buy him a subscription
but I was exhausted. All I wanted at
that point was to get out of there.
The days following I was in a mad
fright that maybe this demented
officer would leak this to the
newspapers just to make me look bad.
I can't tell you how many sleepless
nights I went through. And how
supportive my wife was. Finally at
the hearing my lawyer told me they
didn't have any way in hell to
substantiate the charges. So they
would probably dismiss the whole
thing. But that would take time and
a trial. So I agreed to plead guilty
to just the loitering and open
alcoholic beverage in my car. For
that blatant invasion of my privacy
as well as a whole lot of other
hardening effects this whole thing
had on me, I had to pay in total
$355. But it was Worth the important
issue I learned. 1 shudder now to
think what would have happened to
both Bill and me if he hadn't run
off. NAMBLA was so right. I never
saw the oppression until then, God I
hope I never do again.
— New Jersey
• —
Age of consent laws ’
There hae been a lot of discussion and lack
of uniformity between states on the question
of the "proper age" under which consent should
not be permitted in matters of sexual rela-
tions. Some states use 14 as the proper age;
others say it should be 16; and still others
utilize a still higher age, with many compli-
cations involved. What is proper and reason-
able is a question that has belabored legis-
latures, the media, and many lobbying groups.
What is involved is that the younger person
is denied any choice until after that age. One
day before and their partner — someone they
might be very fond of — is subject to the
penalties of a felony. One day later and by
definition there is no longer a crime. Nowhere
is consideration given to the mental age or
physical development of the youth. On the
opposite side of the age-of-consent division,
there are many men and women with the mental
age of children. It has been written that the
average mental age of the American adult is no
more than that of a 12- to 14-year-old child.
Conversely, there are youths like the Uni-
corn columnist of the NAMBLA Bulletin, who
wrote a comprehensive, well-researched, schol-
arly column showing him to be a very mature
young man. He admits to having enjoyable
sexual relations with men and he thoroughly
resents any interference from the police or
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ENTRAPMENT OF THE MONTH
specific sexiial acts which are considered
pornographic. Previously, only the produc-
tion and commercial dissemination of child
pornography had been considered criminal.
Another correspondent has sent us an
article from a Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
newspaper reporting on the arrest of two
men for receiving child pornography. The
arrest was made throu^ a "controlled
delivery" where Federal agents and local
police actually witnessed a mail delivery.
Such an arrest can also be made when an
individual picks up mail at a post office
under a pre-arranged setup. Customs
seizures do not present a threat because
if the material is witheld it cannot be
received. If released, the material can
only be deemed not obscene.
There is the danger, however, that U.S.
Customs, in working together with postal
authorities, will hold back on sending
notices of seizures. Postal authorities
can then decide on doing a controlled
delivery. Because of the possibility that
materials may be sent unsolicited, postal
investigations are unlikely to be begun
before seizure of a number of pieces of an
individual's mail.
Extreme Caution Urged
Our second correspondent urges us to
contact firms overseas and tell them their
customers are being arrested. This presup-
poses that these firms are known to this
column and that the arrested men did not
deal with bogus firms set up for exactly
such a scam. This possibility prompted us
to expose Alex Srait. as a likely Swedish
based scam ‘in our December column. Since
anybody can be sent unsolicited materials.
courts have to decide on whether pro-
scribed materials have indeed been know-
ingly received — what better way than
having a bogus firm receive orders?
If it looks suspicious, stay away.
Different Name, Same Scam
When we did not get anyone to send us
examples of postal scams in over two
months, we couldn’t believe that the Post
Office had finally decided to give up
looking throu^ keyholes. Ve have at last
received a new example of the type of scam
which masquerades itself as an orggniz^
Ction. _THo nno
Love Club (CIX3) and gives Pn^
Norfolk VA 2350tjaa its aaaress . As is
c^ommon to all ’bRese scams, it has a self-
incriminating questionnaire attached and
gives the mark the escape clause to disre-
gard the material if it was mailed in
error. The introduction appeals to the
recipient's first amendment rights to read
"whatever we please." It fails to mention
that people can rot in jail many years
before anyone will convince the present
Supreme Court that the First Amendment has
been subverted. '
Entrapment is also a legal term which
requires that the thought of a "crime"
would not have occurred without the inter-
vention of the authorities. All scams are
therefore structured in such ways as to
convince judges that only the opportunity
of the "crime" was presented. An entrap-
ment defense is therefore a very difficult
one to present.
Thanks are here given to Michael lavery
and to Bob Rhodes for their help in inter-
preting several items for this column. □
by Peter Melzer
Customs seizures have posed a problem
for some boy-lovers. One correspondent
relates an incident ythere a magazine
depicting nude boys was seized. A letter
from U.S. Customs declared the publication
obscene under section 1505, title 15*
United States Code. When the correspondent
sent a registered letter pointing out that
the photos in question did not depict sex-
ual acts nor were suggestive (as are Pent-
house and Playboy) in any way, he received
a letter informing him to recover his
materials in person. U.S. Customs had de-
clined to institute judicial proceedings.
Because he had to pick up the publication
in person within 50 days at a considerable
distance from his home, the incident pre-
sented inconvenience and expense. ^ It did
not present a threat of criminal prosecu-
tion.
What Are The laws?
The reader who related this incident to
us correctly saw that nudity in itself is
not obscene.- He is also to be admired for
standing up for what he knew to be right.
When, then, is criminal prosecution a
risk? Two laws are currently applicable.
One is the old Comstock law which makes
it a crime to import obscene materials.
Because the definition’ of obscenity is so
confused, prosecution under this law is
very difficult and, consequently, unlike-
iy.
The other law is the Child Protection
Act of 1984* It is an ammendment of the
Sexual Exploitation of Children Act of
1978 which makes it illegal to knowingly
receive child pornography. The act lists
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social workers. Unquestionably he has the
mental level of a mature man, yet when he
started the column over a year ago, he re-
ferred to himself as an "11-year-old faggot".
He calls these laws a ridiculous interference
with his liberty and freedom of choice.
When we assume that those under a certain
established age of consent cannot engage in
sex with those over that age, we are doing
more than just protecting the young and pre-
sumed innocents. In the first place, many
younger persons have heavier sex lives with
far greater frequencies than many older per-
sons. The variety of life sometimes goes to
extremes. One boy told me that he had his first
intercourse with a 15-year-old girl when he
was 3 1/2 and that he had been into sex of all
types, both heteroseuxal and homosexual, indis-
criminately, at least once a week ever since.
No man or older girl could possibly show him
anything that was new to him, nor could any
person make him do anything he didn’t want to
do. He is completely experienced, as are the
majority of young hustlers. To throw a man in
jail for being with him is to make a ridicu-
lous assumption that the man is teaching him
anything. On the contrary, the man could even
be trying to wean him away from too much
thought concentration on sex to the detriment
of his school work.
To assume an arbitrary age of consent re-
quires a parallel assumption that the older
person is teaching something "evil and dirty".
Yet even Sigmund Freud, the father of analy-
sis, said, when questioned about sexual ills:
"It is modern society that creates these ills
in the first place by its deceits and hypocra-
cies, the concept there Is something evil and
dirty about one of the basic and natural acts
the human being can perform. Where sexual
activity is natural and omnipresent there are
none of these neurotic ills." James Michener’s
book Hawaii clearly describes how bigoted
ministers destroyed the carefree happiness of
the guilt-free natives by their narrow teach-
ings on the evils of sexual relations. Until
the Christian teachers came along, they had no
idea that sex is dirty. Neurosis was not pres-
ent until after guilt was falsely instilled
into their minds.
Sex can mean many things. It transcends the
full spectrum from forcible rape to pure,
beneficial affection. In between is coercion,
intimidation, purchase, and seduction. If sex
is an expression of shared love, then it is
beneficial to both partners, regardless of age
or gender. Nothing is more beneficial that to
feel a sense of security in the love of
another: It creates a euphoria. A young boy or
girl may be walking the streets selling sex
one day, being coerced another day. They may
get raped one or more times and finally run
into an older man who cares. That man may take
them from the street, give them a good home
and material needs, and love them. In return,
they may pay him their utmost compliment in
that they allow him into their private, inti-
mate sex lives by invitation.
The one who takes the heavy risk is the one
who removed them from the dangers of the
street, for he will then be with them con-
stantly, whereas their former "customers",
being furtive, take almost no risk. Which
person goes to prison for the long term? As •
you may well suppose, our prisons are full of
good Samaritans who really cared, while the
"customers" are still roaming the streets look-
ing for fresh meat. Many of these are actually
heterosexuals looking for something different.
It is the paedophile, the true lover, the one
who cares, who ends up in prison. So even from
this standpoint, we are punishing the wrong
people.
What would be just and best for the protec-
tion of our young? First, forget the whole
concept of age of consent. It is arbitrary,
unjust, and disciminatory, plus the fact it is
a limitation of the liberties of the young,
who are far better qualified to judge a bene-
factor from those who would use them. Even pets
learn quickly who their friends are. Don’t run
down the judgment of the young where their
bodies are concerned. Many turn the law around
and use it to extort money from older men.
Instead of age, use other factors as cri-
teria for legal violation of the young. If
consent resulted from coercion, intimidation,
purchase, or forceful threats, then let these
elements constitute the felony. But if the
relations are expressions of affection, there
will be beneficial side-effects. Accept it for
what it is — Love! — with the instinct to pro-
tect from harm. To think otherwise is to de-
grade the instincts given us by nature and/or
our deity to love, cherish, and protect the
young. Sexual affection can be no more than
the desire to cherish. If, as we are told to
believe, it is true that "God is Love", then
the expression of love in any form is godli-
ness, no matter whom the partners may be or
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MINISTER OF JUSTICE: USA OVERREACTS
ON CHILD PORNOGRAPHY ISSUES
"I will still deny that the child porno
magazines the American customs have
found are produced in Denmark," says Erik
Ninn-Hansen, who still wants to see
increased sentences for the distribution of
this type of pornography — among other
things, to show the courts that Parliament
wants greater penalties in these matters.
The Justice Minister believes that the
whole thing Is clearly an overreaction when
an American Senate committee has now
asked Minister of Foreign Affairs Georg
Schultz to contact the Danish government
in order to have the transporting of child
pornography across the Atlantic stopped.
"There is no evidence at all that the
FMDrnography the American customs found,
sent from Denmark, was produced here,"
the Danish Minister says. □
their ages.
The bigot is himself playing at being God
when he proscribes physical relations that are
an expression of love and affection. What is
criminal are the elements accompanying those
relations, not the relations themselves. Let
the law be against force, coercion, intimida-
tion, and the purchase of sex from the young,
and not be against the act of sex. Only then
will we be in agreement that sex is not dirty
and evil, as the neurotics would have us
believe. Save our young from being neurotics.
Save them from the wrath of the bigots!
Letters of support ° hv
Latham
954 Forrest Street
Baltimore, MD 2
TO A LOST FRIEND
As I walked up to the swimming hole one
day, there was my friend Bobby in the
water with a white haired man. It had
been a couple months since I'd seen
Bobby, and he swam over to say hello. He
told me about his new friend Frank and
later introduced us. Frank and I became
fast friends.
Frank had been married and was a
father. After his divorce, he'd worked and
lived In various places around the
country. Boys were his raison d'etre.
Shortly after his divorce he shared a
close relationship with a youth, notice of
which was taken by a local policeman. The
officer visited the boy's home one evening
and confronted both the boy and his
parents. "I know Frank's been queer with
lots of guys around here," he said to the
boy. "Well, .he never has been with me,"
was the boy's reply. The policeman was
asked to leave.
Once, upon returning to New York,
Frank's eyes met those of a boy wandering
through the airport terminal. As they
approached each other, a policeman
appeared and said, "Get away from each
other." "But, but..." "Just get away from
each other! " As Frank later stepped off
the subway in Brooklyn, the same boy
stepped off the next car. "Did you follow
me?" Frank smiled. "1 thought you followed
me," the boy said. Thus began a long and
beautiful relationship.
Frank spent some years in the west.
There he met and cared for many boys. He
gained legal custody of one boy, even
though the judge was "sure there's
something homosexual about this case'.' No
proof existed, and Eddie finally had a
stable and happy home.
With his western boys reaching
adulthood, Frank planned to head east
again. Eddie enticed him to a Sunday
morning breakfast at a restaurant. To
Frank's great surprise, almost every boy
he'd known locally was there, many of
whom he had no idea Eddie knew. He
^never learned how Eddie accomplished the
feat. It was a joyous farewell party, and
Frank told me he considered it the high
point of his entire life.
On his way back east, Frank stopped in
Denver where he chanced to meet Billy,
from the city to which we was moving. It
made for a nice welcome-home relationship,
which lasted for several years.
One day as Billy and Frank were driving
through the center city, Billy leaned over
and kissed Frank as they sat at a red
light. "There, I've always wanted to do
that," Billy said as people looked on.
One day Frank received a phone call
from a local minister of his acquaintance.
The minister asked Frank to come in and
see him. He told Frank that he was aware
of his relationship with Billy, and that
Billy's father had asked him to talk to
Frank and to tell him not to see Billy
anymore. Unless the relationship ended,
the father would disown Billy, and Billy's
father was wealthy. Billy would have to
lead a "straight" life. A little over a year
later, Frank encountered Billy on the
street. "J*m sorry, Frank, I cannot talk to
you," he said. Frank never saw Billy
again.
Though Frank and I shared a sense of
commitment to Bobby, Frank's primary
sense of commitment was to Sammy. Sammy
was a shy boy who seemed to be afraid of
life. Frank's place was his one safe haven,
and he frequently retreated there. He
loved Frank dearly.
One Sunday in late winter I stopped by
to find Frank in a very philosophical
mood. He'd lived a full life, he said, and
was ready to go... not that he intended to
do so, mind you.
The following Friday I stopped by again
to find Frank's car present and his
apartment open, but no Frank. The irate
landlady came in behind me to tel! me she
didn't have to tell me anything. I was
puzzled. After a couple of hours I
returned. The now enraged landlady
threatened to call the police. "For what?,"
I asked, "coming to visit comeone?" "You
homosexuals! " she screamed, "I don't
have to tell you anything." And off she
stormed. There was no use trying to
obtain information from somebody in such a
state.
Frank had indeed vanished. Finally I
visited his former residence. His landlord
told me that Frank had died of a massive
heart attack. As it happened, he had died
later the same evening the whacko landlady
was yelling at me. She had invaded his
apartment and read his books, but had not
the kindness to let us be together during
his last hours.
Sammy was stunned by Frank's death. I
reached out a hand to him, but I could not
fill Frank's shoes. Wherever he is, I can
only hope he Is well.
Frank's life was a life well lived. The
good done for the boys whose lives he
touched overrules his would be detractors,
and should serve as an' inspiration to
people everywhere.
— Arls
NAMBLA:
I enjoy reading your monthly newsletter
although I do question some of the
articles and photographs that obviously
eclipse the definition of a "boy." In
almost every issue, there's material on
young "men" but I am quick to assure you
I am prejudiced. There's a fine line
between paedophilia and "adult"
relationships, indeed, but I do draw
that line. I seem to have no interest in
the "gay" world and find solace only in
the company of sub-15' year olds, and
only attractive ones at that.
I applaud your socio-political
awareness but I hope your publication
doesn't become totally reactionary and
go the way of the "Yippie" magazines of
yesteryear. It is well and good to
defend the rights of those imprisoned
for "crimes" involving children, yet you
must admit that no doubt some genuine
sickos have sought the umbrella of
NAMBLA in order to justify crimes that
would turn all our stomachs. I guess we
have to sift the bad from the good. You
have an awesomely complex foundation to
defend and I wish you luck.
The photo on your June 1984 Bulletin
cover was magnif icient . Much of the
writing is intelligent and lucid. Some
of the poetry is quite touching.
— Florida
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books
The HustlePt by John Henry
Mackay. Translated by Hubert
Kennedy. Boston; Alyson Pub-
lications, Inc. 1985. 30^pp. $7.95
THE HUSTLER
JOHN HENRY MACKAY
TRANSLATED BY HUBERT KENNEDY
by David Thorstad
This novel Is a love story.
It Is romantic, cynical, In-
sightful. In places it is
moving. As someone who has put
down many novels before finishing
them, I found it often com-
pelling. I wanted to know how
things would turn out. I could
tell, from hints dropped here and
there, that the outcome would not
be saccharine or unrealistic, and
was glad to discover that it was,
if not tragic, at least not tritely
happy or optomistic. Gay activists
often complain about films and cre-
ative writing about homesexuali ty
that seem to require the inevitable
Unhappy Ending. The star-crossed
love of The Hustler makes its
ending realistic.
Mackay published the novel in
German with the title Per Pup-
pen Junt^e in 1926 under the his
long-time pseudonym for his gay
wirtlngs, Sagitta (Arrow). Mackay
had been writing boy-love lite-
rature and pamphlets under that
name for more than two decades.
The book was sold privately and had
little success. It is surely a
classic of boy-love literature, and
it Is a welcome' addition to the
list of such literature available
in English.
Mackay -- whom Hubert Kennedy
has probably done more than anyone
else to bring to the attention of a
North American readership -- was
one of the most Important and con-
aclously radical proponents of man/
boy love in the early German homo-
sexual rights movement. He was not
a boy-ogler but a sexual freedom
fighter who devoted his life to
activism on behalf of individual
freedom and sexual liberation. In
his writings on man-boy love during
the first part of this century one
senses a kindred soul; his insights
into the man/boy love relationship
and the hypocrisy and bigotry of
the society of his day have a fresh
quality that is inspiring and cou-
rageous decades later. It can only
be hoped that the publication of
this novel in English will reach
readers who still think raan/boy
love is somehow a phenomenon that
can be divorced from the "broader"
Issues of gay liberation. And,
3ust as Important, the novel will
make accessible to English-speaking
boy-lovers and youth an awareness
of a historical continuity to their
struggle that has escaped all but
the few who read German.
You don*t need any political
baggage to appreciate this novel,
however. It provides a special
window on the Berlin hustling
scenes of the late twenties
upper class, middle class and, most
of all, lower class. It manages to
give Mackay’s views of the man/boy
love relationship — views of an
individualist-anarchist -- but it
also tells a story whose characters
come alive and, curiously, might
inhabit the real boy-love world
today. This is not a period
piece. It is that, of course, but
it is much more as well. I found
myself frequently smiling and
noting similarities with friend-
ships -I have had, even' though' I'
have never personally been involved
in the hustling scene. The reason
is that Mackay knows boys; he knows
boy-lovers, and he, skillfully por-
trays the aspirations, Joys, an-
guish and occassional rage that
accompany the connections they make
across the generations.
The Hustler is the story of
Gunther Nielsen, 15, and Hermann
Graff, a man in his twenties, who
both escape their small-town life
In the provinces for the wider
vistas of Berlin. They meet, by
chance; lose each other, meet again
and finally lose each other for
good, each having been transformed
in his own way. Gunther is drawn
into the hustler subculture of the
big city, and Herman believes,
naively, that his overpowering love
for the boy can save him from this
life.
One of the most attractive as-
pects of the novel is its portrayl
of the hustler scene of the lounges
and bars of Berlin in the late
twenties. In this, Mackay does not
sugar-coat anything that I could
detect. The boy-hustlers are often
on cocaine and are cynical toward
their Johns — even, as in the case
of Hermann, when they are not Johns
but men who actually love their
young friends. They have no fu-
ture, nor even any awareness of a
future. They live from one day to
the next.
One of the more interesting
chapters is a description of the
hustler table at Uncle Paul’s sa-
loon, where the boys hang out in
the late afternoon before going out
to work for the evening. Besides
Gunther, whom the boys call Chick,
Mackay introduces the entire clique
as they relax before getting on
with more serious business: Leo,
Kuddel, Hamburger, Tall Willy,
Saxon, Brown George, Clever Walter,
Atze (an "eighty-penny boy" who is
a police informer). Corpse Eddy,
Sailor Otto, Karl the Great. Each
character has his own personality.
It is one of the better chapters
in the book, though here, as else-
where, Mackay*s style is not to de-
scribe so much as it is to sketch,
and let the reader, fill in details
from his own Imagination.
In fact, if Mackay as a
novelist has any weakness, it is in
his powers of description. Boy
hands are "little"; teeth are
"splendid"; boys are "strikingly
handsome"; and the words "beauty"
and "beautiful," which convey no-
thing directly, seem overused. In
one place hair is "light brown";
later the same hair is "dark
blond." Mackay’s use of adjectives
is, generally, quite unoriginal.
But you could look on this as a
bare-minimum approach, in which the
reader can participate by filling
in the blanks. By and large, it
works. One description of Gun-
ther’s hand - which plays an
exaggerated role, perhaps because
straightforward descriptions of
more Interesting and intimate body
parts could not be included, no
doubt for legal reasons -- struck
me as off-beat: Mackay notes its
"unclean but well-grown nails." It
is a typical, almost algebraic,
description in that the reader can
make of it what he/she wishes.
But if Mackay descriptive
talents may not be anything to rave
about, you’ll find yourself carried
along nonetheless. His Insights
into the psychology of man and boy
in such relationships is extraor-
dinary, and this hasn't changed a
bit in the sixty years since the
novel was published. His style
seems occasionally excessively
romantic, but on the other hand,
the boys he creates are not roman-
ticized or Idealized at all. In
fact, they are refreshingly cynical
about their Johns. Mackay has
gotten inside the heads of boys.
His portrayls come across as au-
thentic. Hermann (who is in part
Mackay's alter-ego) seems, in con-
trast, to be Idealistic and naive
in the extreme. But haven't we all
known real-life boy-lovers who
could have inspired such a por-
trait? Probably, we all could have
at one moment or another,
Gunther, the boy-herp, is —
as Hermann himself recognizes —
boring. The energy and emotional
input in this "relationship" are
all one-way, really; But, then,
that is not so extraordinary, how-
ever far from the ideal. Gunther
has no spontaneity and could hardly
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Berlin of the early 1900s: this photo, taken about 1910, shows the Friedrichstrasse,
where much of the action of The Huetler takes place.
be considered your ♦♦ideal boy-
friend." He*s actually kind of a
clod, Insensitive to and uncaring
about his solicitous friend, I
can*t imagine spending more than
five minutes with him myself. But
chacun a son gout, and he really is
someone special to Hermann, Yet
Hermann seems more intent on living
out his fantasy of the Ideal
Friendship than he is of actually
getting to know Gunther. Their
first break-up occurs, in fact, as
a result of a misunderstanding pro-
duced by a misreading by Hermann of
Gunther*s desire for sex -- this
kid is the silent type, and his
signals are rather weak. By the
time Gunther is sent to Jail for
hustling, Hermann still doesn't
know his last name, or virtually
anything else about him. There's a
lot of action at cross-purposes in
this novel -- Just as there Is in a
lot of man/boy relationships.
There's no didacticism here, but I
felt that both Gunther and Hermann
made a lot of mistakes in this
tale.Mackay Is strongest when he
relates the interior monologues to
which Hermann subjects himself
during his periodic separations
from Gunther -- all brought about
by Gunther's standing him up, going
off with someone else or being ar-
rested. The two major separations
occur when Gunther is picked up and
kept by the rich Count, who desires
only to look at his nude body in
sleep and . when he Is arrested and
sent to , Jail -- an event that turns
previous forebodings into inevi-
table disaster. During these sepa-
rations, Hermann is unfailingly
noble and altruistic, even if he
does sometimes sink into a morass
of . self-doubt about his rela-
tionship to this boy. His efforts
to help Gunther prompt him to write
a fateful letter to him in Jail,
which is intercepted, by the au-
thorities, Hermann is quickly
arrested and sentenced -- with the
shameful acquiesence of his young
friend, who has been dehumanized
and brutalized by his captors -- to
two months In jail for violating
"paragraph so-and-so" of the penal
code. The amazing thing for con-
temporary Americans is that the
sentence was so light — not
because Hermann had done anything
wrong, but because the state system
of repression is so barbaric in the
United States that two months seems
like almost nothing.
Hermann fluctuates throughout
between exaltation and a sense of
bliss to rage at his mistreatemen t
at the hands of the unthinking
street boy. The fact that he re-
cognizes that Gunther is boring,
that the boy really offers nothing
of himself, makes one wonder why
Hermann expended so much energy,
time and money on him. But love is
blind, and at any rate, no serious
harm was done. The real harm, as
Mackay has an old-woman friend of
Hermann say near the end ofthe no-
vel, comes from those authority fi-
gures who impose state-sanctioned
morality on Individuals who share
their love freely: "And what are
all the crimes in the world com-
pared with the ones carried out by
those in gowns and vestments, robes
and uniforms!"
Don't read this book if you
hope to find hot sex scenes. There
aren't any. You’ll find no des-
criptions of dicks or unclothed bo-
dies. Read this novel because it
is a good story, because it is
well-written, and because it is
part of boy-love literature that
long has been supressed and for-
gotten.
Hubert Kennedy's translation
is quite literal. In general, this
works well -- it captures the
period-piece qaulity, and it shows
respect for a work he obviously
loves by an author he greatly ad-
mires. The translation strikes the
proper tone and is faithful to the
original. In a few places, it may
be a bit too literal ("he had no
hunger" for "he was not hungry" and
"he had luck" for "he was lucky"),
but this was clearly a labor of
love. It is one for which both
Kennedy and Alyson Publications are
to be commended.
Alyson’s cover, which it does
not Identify, is taken from the co-
ver of a 1924 issue of Per Eigene,
a boy-love magazine for "art and
male culture." □
AN INTERVIEW WITH HUBER KENNEDY
by Asa Ralubat
It is late afternoon. Hubert
Kennedy is comfortably seated on
the living room couch in his home
in Providence, Rhode Island. We
have been acquainted for some time,
but this is my first opportunity to
talk with him about his translation
of The Hustler.
Hubert, the author of The Hustler
was John Henry Mackay, but wasn't
it originally published under a
pseudonym!
That's right. He used the name
Sagitta for his man/boy love writ-
ings, but in his will he asked that his
true name be given on any future
publication. By the way, please pro-
nounce "Mackay" to rhyme with
"cry." That's the normal Scottish
pronunciation, and Mackay also in-
sisted on it.
Was Mackay Scottish?
His father was, but he died when
Mackay was two years old and
Mackay's mother returned with him
to Germany where Mackay grew up.
The Hustler is set in Berlin. Did
Mackay grow up there?
No. He grew up in a small town and
later traveled a good deal, but he set-
tled in Berlin in 1894 and lived there
until his death in 1933, shortly after
Hitler came to power. So by 1926,
when The Hustler was first pub-
lished, Mackay knew Berlin well.
How did you become interested in
Mackay?
I first heard of Mackay when Eg-
mont Fassbinder reprinted the Sag-
itta writings of Mackay in 1979 as
one of the first publications of his
newly founded gay press in Berlin.
This is a 2-voIume edition, of which
the second is the novel Der Puppen-
junge, which I have translated as
The Hustler.
Is this Fassbinder related to the late
Rainer Fassbinder, the film director?
He is a cousin.
Was The Hustler Mackay’s first
novel?
No, he wrote several novels. His
first was The Swimmer, which was
published in 1901, making it one of
ihc first sports novels. It depicts the
rise and fall of a world champion
continued on page
Page 9
"Criminals are a small minority in any
age or country. And the harm they have
done to mankind is infinitesimal when
compared to the horrors — the bloodshed,
the wars, the persecutions, the
confiscations, the famines, the
enslavements, the wholesale destruction —
perpetrated by mankind's governments.
Potentially, a government is the most
dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds
a legal monopoly on the use of physical
force against legally disarmed victims."
-- Ayn Rand (1964)
HUBERT KENNEDY
AN INTERVIEW WITH
continued from page 9
swimmer from Berlin. Mackay him-
self was an enthusiastic swimmer
into his old a^'c, and he was fre-
quently in the public swrmming
pools of Berlin. Of course so were
the boys he was attracted to,, partic-
ularly the a>;es of 14 to 17.
Is The Swimmer also a man/boy
love storyl
It is not a love story at all. Rather, it
shows the conflict of an individual
with the society in which he lives.
This theme was very important to
Mackay, who, just before writing
The Swimmer, had spent several
years researching the life of Max
Stirner, the philosopher of individu-
alism. The Swimmer illustrates,
many of Stirncr’s ideas.
Are they also in The Hustler?
To a lesser degree. But yes, they are
there. Mackay's individualist anar-
chist philosophy show’s through,
• even in his purely literary works. Af-
ter all, when the New York Times
reported his death in 1933 they said
he was called. in Germany an "anar-
chist lyricist."
Was Mackay primarily a poet then?
Mackay wrote in a variety of forms,
but his literary recognition was a
lyricist. One of his poems,
“Morgen," was given a lovely music-
al setting by Richard Strauss. This
song, which was first sung at Mack-
ay's house in Berlin, is loved the
world over, but it is not generally
known that the words W'crc inspired
by a boy.
You mentioned Mackay’s "purely
literary" works. What are you con-
trasting that with?
His propaganda for individualist an-
archism. Mackay gained instant
fame in 1891 with the publication of
The Anarchists, a non-novel that
had an American edition that same
year and was quickly translated into
six other foreign languages. In it
Mackay discusses the relative mer-
its of individualist versus commun-
ist anarchism, more of less the var-
ieties supported in America by Ben-
iamin Tucker and Emma Goldman,
respectively.
Did Mackay know those two person-
ally?
Yes. It was Tucker who published
The Anarchists in America. He and
Mackay became good friends, and
Mackay's other non-novel, The Free-
domseeker, was dedicated to him.
Mackay also met Emma Goldman
on a 3-month visit to the U.S. in
1893; in fact, he lunched with her in
New York on the first day of her trial
for "inciting to riot."
What is individualist anarchism?
For Mackay an anarchist is someone
who refuses to rule or be ruled. He
summed it up in his slogan "Equal
freedom for all”
Was there a "gay rights" movement
in Berlin in the 1920s?
A very strong one, but it was only
directed at revising the most oppres-
sive laws. The first such organiza-
tion was founded in Berlin in 1897
by the sexologist Magnus Hirsch-
feid, who was in part prompted by
the cruel treatment of Oscar Wilde
in England. This group, the German
Scientific Humanitarian Commit-
tee, circulated a petition asking the
legislators to change the law. By the
1920s many leading German intell-
ectuals — Albert Einstein, for ex-
ample - had signed the petition,
but in the end nothing came of it. Of
course, when the Nazis came to
power in 1933 all such organizations
simply dissolved. Hirschfeld himself
died in exile,- his institute for Sexual
Science in Berlin was one of the
Nazis' first targets for destruction.
But what was life like (or the gay
man-in-the-street in the 1920s? Was
there a gay sub-culture?
By the end of the decade there were
at least 80 predominantly gay bars,
more or less tolerated by the police.
It is probably significant, however,
that the book that mentions this is
titled Guide to the vices of Berlin.
Mackay has a good description of the
hustler-bar scene in his novel. In ad-
dition, I've another bar description
in the notes to the novel, taken from
the 19-year-old Klaus Mann's first
novel of the same period.
On special occasions, such as New
Year’s, there were also private balls,
with a good deal of cross-dressing.
But we should not forget that the
social stigma of being 'so' was even
stronger then than now, and since
(male} homosexual acts were illegal,
the danger of blackmail Was also
great. By the way, the movie Cab-
aret suggests that homoerotic
themes were common, but in fact
this was quite rare in the cabaret
shows of the period, whose themes
were primarily political.
Let's come back to The Hustler.
What is the plot?
It is the story of Gunther, a 15-year-
boy who runs away from his small
hometown . to the big city Berlin,
where he falls into a life of prostitu-
tion, and of Hermann Graff, a young
man who has come to Berlin to
work, and who falls in love with the
boy. Gunther, how'cvcr, sees only a
customer in Hermann. During the
course of the year in which the novel
takes place, Hermann gradually
comes to terms with his sexual ori-
entation. But the novel is not just a
plea for understanding; it is a genu-
ine love story - the classic novel of
man/boy love.
At the same time The Hustler
gives a picture of the sexual under-
world of Berlin that Christopher Ish-
erwood, who arrived in Berlin only
three years after the publication of
the novel, assures us is "authentic."
It is> in fact, one of the novels Ish-
erwood read during his stay in that
city. Mackay sometimes treats his
central characters sentimentally,
HciberC Kennedy
hut he describes the various homo-
sexual scenes of Berlin with un-
sparing realism.
He is also geographically exact.
For this reason 1 have included a
map of central Berlin, showing the
principal streets and places men-
tioned in the novel, so that the
reader may trace some of the action.
By the way, it is no longer possible
to actually do this. Friedrich Street,
for example, is partly in East Berlin
and partly in West Berlin; the fam-
ous Checkpoint Charlie is on Fried-
rich Street, and the Berlin Wall also
separates Unter den Linden from the
Tiergarten, whereas in the story the
characters simply walk from one in-
to the other.
You mention that several homosex-
ual scenes are described. Was there
much social activity also among les-
bians there in the 1920s?
Indeed there was. One lesbian club,
“Monbijou," founded in the early
1920s, had 600 members. The "Vio-
Ictta-Klub," which was active from
1926 to 1933, had 400 members.
These are not described in The
Hustler, however. Nor is there any
mention of the very active homosex-
ual emancipation movement led by
Hirschfeld.
Are there any women iii The
Hustler?
Near the end of the novel a wise
older woman presents Mackay's
own views of man/boy love.
Why did you decide to translate The
Hustler?
Friends urged me to do it, and be-
sides, it fit into several of my inter-
ests. I have been interested in the
origins of the modern gay move-
ment, especially in Germany, as
well as being interested in the lit-
erary depiction of homosexuals.
Then too, Mackay's anarchist
philosophy is very sympathetic.
Finally, I think the literary treat-
ment of man/hoy love has been
neglected. Thus, when the oppor-
tunity came to spend a year in Ger-
many, 1 made this translation my
maior project and spent the winter
and spring of 1983 in Munich work-
ing on it.
1 suppose being in Germany helped.
Of course, especially since a very
dear friend in Munich had lived a
number of years in Berlin, knew the
city well, and took an interest in its
history and my project. He was an
invaluable help.
But you have also spent some time
in Berlin, haven't you?
Oh yes, and on my visit I had the
pleasure of meeting Heinz Birken,
who has written many charming
poems and stories of man/boy love,
and in 1981 published a long novel,
lede Liebe ist Liebe. on the subject.
Do you plan to translate any other
works of Mackay?
I have no plans, but there arc several
things that deserve translation. The
shorter, and very autobiographical,
novel Fenny Skaller, for example,
which was first published in 1913,
also under the pseudonym Sagitta.
Have you read all of Mackay's
writings?
Not the poetry, but I think 1 have
read all his prose, including several
unpublished manuscripts that are
now in the possession of Kurt Zube,
who very kindly let me read them
when I visited him in Freiburg, Ger-
many. By the way, Zube knew
Mackay personally. He is also one of
the people who urged me to trans-
late The Hustler.
One final question, Hubert. Are you
a boy-lover?
Isn’t everyone? D
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IN MEMORIAM: PETER SCHULT
by Hubert fCennedy
At the time of his death one
year ago at age 55, Peter Schult
was the best known boy-lover in
Germany. This was due partly to a
public campaign to have him re-
leased from prison on humanitarian
grounds, since he was terminally
ill with lung cancer, a campaign
that was strengthened by revela-
tions that officials in the justice
system had deliberately refused him
treatment until the cancer had be-
come incurable. Until then, how-
ever, he was generally known only
to activist boy-lovers, left-
radical political groups, and, of
course, the many boys he had loved
and helped and had sex with.
Peter found and took home the
homeless -- or they found him. In
state Institutions his address was
passed from one boy to another as a
place where runaways could find
temporary shelter. His address was
also well-known to the authorities,
whose "authority" the anarchist
Peter refused to recognize, and he
was sent to prison numerous times
on charges of drug possession and
"seducing minors." In 1971 - 7^ he
was in prison for "kidnapping"
(read: sheltering a runaway from a
state institution) and spent nearly
two years in Isolation, in part a
result of political organizing
among inmates.
With the publication in 1978
of his autobiography, Besuche in
Sackgassen: Au f zeichnungen eines
homosexuellen Anarchlsten (Visits
in Dead-End Street: Memoirs of a
Homosexual Anarchist), written
while he was again in prison, Peter
became notorious, both for the
frankness with which he revealed
and accepted his sexuality and for
his antagonism to the state. The
book shows a colorful life.
Peter Schult was born in
Berlin on June 17, 1928. He
briefly saw military service at the
end of the Second World War, es-
caped from a prisoner-of-war camp
in the Eastern Zone shortly after
internment in 19**5, and by the end
of that year had fled to the Vest,
where he lived from black market
trading and theft from automobiles,
for which he was sent to jail.
From 1950 he led a respectable life
as an active political liberal, di-
rected a youth home and was, brief-
ly, married. As a result of a ho-
mosexual affair he resigned his
political offices in 1955 and
joined the French Foreign Legion,
serving until 1961, when he settled
in Munich. There he took part in
the anti-establishment subculture,
among other wasy, by editing an
underground newspaper and dealing
in drugs -- and this in a city
notorious for its right-wing po-
litics.
When Peter was convicted for
the last time in 1982 for "corrup-
ting a minor" and was given the
lengthy (for Germany) sentence of
two years and ten months, the judge
particularly pointed out Peter’s
lack of regret for his actions.
Nor were the authorities pleased by
Peter's writing in his his second
book, Gefallene Engel (Fallen An-
gels, 1982), a collection of short
stories and essays, again des-
cribing his experiences with boys
and his anarchist views.
Although Peter was unable to
obtain treatment for what he be-
lieved to be a tumor in his lung,
he finally gained a transfer to a
prison in Berlin, where the pre-
sence of the tumor was confirmed.
Efforts to gain his release having
failed (although 4,500 people
signed the petition), Peter fled
the hospital in Berlin in March
1984, and a month later was back In
Munich, wnere he died of bleeding
in the lungs on April 26, 1984.
As Peter lay dying in Munich,
a special issue of the journal Die
Aktlon: Zeltschrift fur Politik,
Literatur. Junst was being prepared
in Hamburg. It was devoted en-
tirely to Peter and expressed an
appreciation of him and outrage at
his treatment. Edward Brongersma
wrote:
"Society will one day have to
admit -- just as with witch hunts
and the fight against masturbation
-- how insane and damaging all this
was, how many have been made un-
happy and socially ruined in the
name of morality and law. Instead
of learning from them and gaining
from their special talents. It
still clings today to prejudices,
whose falseness has long been sci-
entifically demonstrated.
"What all could a man like
Peter Schult with his intelligence,
his understanding, his insight into
youth, his warm love of the young,
not have done for society! And to
what has this world reduced him?
"It would be better to have
less outrage over the faults of the
past and a bit more over our con-
temporary Schult. His fate is a
symptom of the sickness of our
society . "
Germany is not the United
States, and it is difficult to draw
parallels, since our laws are
harsher and our prison sentences
brutally longer than those in
Germany. But our struggle is
basically the same, and one need
not be the complete anarchist that
Peter was to be inspired by his
Integrity and his determination to
follow his feeling in the knowledge
that his love for boys was good. □
THE CASTAWAY
I bless the day you knocked upon my door,
more timid than I'd ever seen before;
discarded by your folks for being gay,
you hadn't any other place to stay.
I took you in, despite my churlish mood,
reluctant to renounce my solitude.
But day by day. to my surprise. I found
1 soon got used to having you around.
Your sparkling Effervescence changed my
style;
my spirits rose atop your sunlit smile.
As full of mischief as a frisky pup,
you brimmed with laughter and I drank it
up.
You brought your youthful, radiant warmth
to bed
and woke in me desires I thought were dead.
You'd spend your passions like a lustful faun,
then nestle in my arms until the dawn.
Thus, reaching out across a timeless span,
you touched the heart inside a stony man.
Phillip Hutchinson
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They tried to tell us we're too young
If there were enough grown-up jobs for
them to go to, British children would be
fine little workers one day. No fewer
than 40% of schoolchildren work during
term time at an occupation carried on for
profit (this includes paper deliveries but
not paid baby-sitting). One in 10 have
two jobs or more, and 11- and 12-year-
olds are almost as likely to be working as
older pupils. Over a third of London
schoolboys work more than 10 hours per
week during term. Most earn £1 an hour
or less, while 10% settle for under 50
pence an hour.
The law is after these artful dodgers
(in theory), but almost never catches
them. According to the Low Pay Unit’s
survey’^ — where these figures come
from — most child workers are breaking
some law or other. Thus 65% of London
children with jobs work illegal hours,
28% do jobs children are not supposed
to do, and a quarter are under 13*— too
young to work legally at all.
The survey — carried out in London,
Luton and Bedfordshire in 1982 and
1983 — probably underestimates child
employment. Only children at school
were included, so the results leave out
holiday work and those enterprising tru-
ants too busy to go to school and fill in
questionnaires. One London boy was
frank enough to put down his job as
nicking car radios. This would be classi-
fied as a “service”.
The Low Pay Unit’s study of a neglect-
ed part of the black economy confirms
work done for the department of health
and social security (DHSS) in 1972 by Dr
Emrys Davies. He found that nearly half
of British pupils between the ages of 13
and 15 were in paid employment, much
of it illegal. Most liked their work and
few did it in order to help with the bills.
Dr Davies also found, unsurprisingly,
that pupils who spent more of their time
out of school in paid work tended to play
truant more often, do worse in class, and
be generally naughtier than those who
worked few hours or not at all. But he
could not say what caused what.
Most working children seem to do
relatively safe jobs that adults would not
do, though children do get run over
when making deliveries (and probably
more often than adults would). But a
recent BBC programme, “Brass Tacks”,
Children’s jobs*
Job % of total working
Delivering newspapers 33.3 B
Shopwork 16.8
Farming 1 3.6 B
Work with animals 11 .8 G
Cleaning offices, hotels,
houses 7.8
Milk round, other deliveries 6.9 B
Building construction,
decoration, repair 6.6
Street market or fairground 6.2 B
Pub or off-licence 5.9 B
Garage or petrol station 5.0 B
B mostly boys G mostly Qiiis. *Jobs done in week of
survey; ssmple of 1 , 712 schoolchildren in London, Luton,
Bedfordshire. Source: Low Pay Unit.
highlighted another face of child labour.
Take carrot -topping in East Anglia.
Over half of British tinned carrots have
their ends snipped off in East Anglian
sheds. The BBC’s researchers found the
evening shifts (5pm to 8pm) in many
such sheds to consist largely of children
aged nine and upwards, and estimated
that 30% of East Anglian production
was processed by children. The piece-
work rate for large carrots worked out at
around 70 pence an hour. Parents ap-
proved and mothers put their children on
the gang-labour buses after school. Since
these sheds count as factories, the work
is illegal. Factory inspectors began to
take an interest at about the time last
year that the BBC started looking into it.
Nobody is quite sure who ought to be
enforcing the bewildering range of regu-
lations covering child labour. Health and
safety inspectors tend to assume the
employees they see are old enough to be
legally employed. Educational welfare
officers, who know how to spot a child,
have plenty of other duties and do not
have right of access to places of work.
There are two sets of rules. Nation-
wide legislation bans industrial work
below the age of 16 and all employment
below 13. Children under 16 may not
work before 7am (newsboys, please
note), after 7pm (so helping mother stuff
envelopes after homework is out) or for
more than two hours on any schoolday
or Sunday. A lot of local authorities
make further complicated by-laws: while
children may help with a milk-round in
Sheffield, they may not do so in nearby
Barnsley. The 1973 Employment of Chil-
dren Act should have allowed the regula-
tions to be standardised across the coun-
try, so employers could easily find out
where they stood. But the act was never
brought into force because local authori-
ties argued (in 1973 and again in 1977)
that they did not have the resources to
implement it. It is still lying unused on
the statute book. □
* Working Children. Low Pay Unit (1985).
THE ECONOMIST JANUARY 26, 1985
The Children’s
Express
They were the envy of every reporter
over 5 feet.
Children 's Express reponers made their way
to the front of the crowd again and again, scor-
ing exclusive interviews with Jesse Jackson,
Gary Hart, and Mayor Feinstein, who declared
Monday, July 9th, Children 's Express Day.
The news service, established in 1975, and
now carried by UPI for 2,500 newspapers in
the United States and overseas, had 32
energetic 9- to 1 3-year-old reporters and 2114-
to l&y ear-old editors scurrying about the ci-
ty last month. They covered the National
March for Gay/Lesbian Rights, interviewed
leaders of the Campbells’ Boycott, and provid-
ed gave] lo-gavel convennon coverage.
“They had about fourteen convention press
passes,” muttered one envious local editor,
who had only two.
What’s their secret? “Kids can be blunt,” ex-
plained Meredith Miller, 1 1 , in a C.E. column.
“Adults can’t act naive. Kids can come right out
and say ‘Did you embezzle funds?’.”
And they have asked.
In a much-celebrated 1976 interview with
Chicago’s Mayor Daley, one of the C.E.
reporters interviewed him and asked about the
Chicago convention of 1968. “He denied the
riot ever happened,” said Deborah Artman,
Children 's Express Editor and Chief. “He said
someone made it up. Well, that was a pretty
grave error.” The C.E. banner headline scream-
ed, “Daley: It Never Happened.” That, and
predicting Mondale as Carter’s running mate,
catapulted C.E. into the journalistic limeligiu
in 1 976; and it’s been gaining steam ever since.
Headquartered in New York, Ojildren ’s Ex-
press now has bureaus in the Bay Area, Salem,
Massachusetts, Newark, New Jersey, and
Tokyo, and is forming new bureaus in New
Zealand and Australia.
The columns, which are transcripts of taped
interviews, capture not only politicians caught
a little off guard, but the childrens’ unbridled
opinions. Omri Elisha, 11 -year-old reporter,
asked Han, “How do you feel about Mondale
picking Ferraro over you?” Hart responded, “If
I win the nomination, which I probably will,
I’ll pick her, too.” To which Elisha conclud-
ed, “He probably just says that — oh, I’ll pick
her too — and he’s going to pick some rabbit
from Hoboken,”
— Alexis X. Jetter
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On April 10, Customs officials raided Gay’s The Word, London’s lesbian and gay
community bookshop and ‘detained’ all of its imported stock. This raid was widely
regarded as an attack on the fundamental right of lesbians and gay men to choose
what they read. A Defence Campaign was set up immediately. This update is the
second in a regular series of buUetins which will keep you informed of the latest
developments in the Defend Gay’s The Word Campaign. The first section, below,
gives details of the latest moves by Customs. The centre pages report on how we are
responding and on the crucial decision of the National Council for Civil Liberties to
take up our case. The back page makes suggestions about how you can help defend
Gay’s The Word.
Since our last Update in June, Customs officials have moved slowly - but dramatically. On 1
August they formally seized 1 5 copies of Le Gat Pied, the French national gay newspaper. This
seizure has received a storm of protest both here and in Paris - it may violate EEC regulations.
But the critical move came on 8 October when Customs issued 20 new seizure notices covering
1 32 titles and well over 2000 books. These had been detained at the ports for up to six months.
The 132 titles include major works of autobiography, biography, poetry, fiction, history and
counselling by authors such as Jean Paul Sartre, Edward Carpenter (incredible!), Jean Genet,
Gore Vidal and Djuna Barnes. It is an astonishing range which has led NCCL General
Secretary Larry Gostin lo write to the Chancellor of the Exchequer demanding that he receive a
deputation from NCCL to discuss the seizure. The titles include many classics which are, or
have been in the past, either published or otherwise widely available in this country. There is no
book on the list which it would not be legal to publish in this country. UK published books are
subject to the stringent laws of ‘obscenity’ but imported books are subject to the much more
ambiguous criterion of ‘indecency’. This covers material which the average person in the street
would find disagreeable or ‘in poor taste*. Courts have enormous discretion in interpreting
‘indecency’ and it is this anomaly which has enabled Customs to single out lesbian and gay
reading in this attack.
Customs wish to interview all the direaors of the bookshop and we expea rapid
developments. Legal costs in fighting possible charges will be astronomical. This Update gives
details of how you can help defend the lesbian and gay communities in defending themselves
against this fundamental attack on basic freedoms. We will keep you informed of further
developments. In the meantime we hope you will be generous in your support.
GAY APATHY
ALLOWS BOOKSTORE ATTACK
Child Porn was published in the USA, up
until about the mid-1970s and the Child
Porn HYSTERIA reached its peak in about
1980. The Child Porn HYSTERIA was started,
and promoted, by those political- types who
saw that they could use it to their
advantage.
By the early-1980s, these political-types
were finally forced to realize that they were
beating a dead horse. SO THEY INVENTED A
NEW ONE! And that is how the HYSTERIA
over Child Sex/ Abuse was born.
Who hasn't heard about McMartin Pre-school?
The media has had a field day (and they've
ujad« some MEGA-bucks with it along the
way!). But how many (outside the L.A.
area) know about the THREE other
pre-schools, that were located in the same
town as McMartin? These three pre-schools
were raided, months after McMartin, and
those raids were covered by the media in
order to have some BIG /sensational headlines
(and to get some huge profits). NOTHING
was found during these raids, but all three
pre-schools were thereby' put
OUT OF BUSINESS!
The political-types in England attacked, and
destroyed, the Child Porn industry in their
country several years before it started
here. They then attacked, and destroyed,
the English pedophile , organization called
"P.I.E.", even though the PIE newsletter
never had any porno pix of kids in it!
Homosexual groups didn't lift a finger to
help PIE. If anything, most of them went
out of their way to help destroy PIE. They
deluded themselves fatally with the hope
that their joining the attack would make
them more socially acceptable.
The Child Porn HYSTERIA has pretty well
run its course in England and the Child Sex
HYSTERIA started there before it started
here .
On April 10, 1984: English officials raided
GAY'S THE WORD, London's most respected
Lesbian i Gay bookshop and "detained" all
of its imported stock. On August 1, they
seized copies of "Le Gai Pied", the French
national Gay newspaper. On October 8, they
seized 132 titles and well over 2,000 books
- including works by Jean Paul Sarte, Jean
Genet and Gore Vidal! They have done
everything possible in order to destroy this
bookshop. I assume that English Homosexuals
are now painfully aware of the fact that the
political-types in their country ARE out to
destroy them!
It does not matter who/ what you are, if you
value your freedom - you must FIGHT BACK
with your MONEY now* The following
"radical” entities need your help now. At
least send them $1 for more information.
{Defend Gay's The Word Campaign, 38 Mount
Pleasant, London, WCIX OAP, England.
: Committee for the Rights of Children and
Families, POB 4503, N, Hollywood, CA, 91607.
{Family Nudist Magazine, 2483 Emerson So.,
Corona, California, 91720, USA.
:NAMBLA, POB 174, Midtown Sta, NYC, NY,
10018
{PAN, POB 3496, NL-1001 AG Amsterdam,
Holland .
;If you don't help these entities now -
"later" will only be too-late.... for YOU! Q
Membership continues to grow, albeit,
very slowly. If we are to grow to a criti-
cal mass by our next conference, the rate
of new members and membership renewals
will have to increase substantially.
One member, who recently renewed, sent
in an extra contribution and an apology
about not being able to find another
potential member. This task is obviously
more difficult in some situations than in
others. Nevertheless, if we are to become
an effective, grassroots organization, the
effort must continue to be made.
One effort that everyone can make is to
renew his own membership promptly. The
savings in energy to the or^mization can
then be invested into going after new
members. Help out by renewing at least
two months in advance of the number of the
month displayed among the symbols in the
lower ri^t hand corner of your mailing
label. That number represents the month
of the last issue of the Bulletin in your
membership.
A large, well informed membership and
readership is the only way we can ever
begin to overcome our oppressed state. □
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OniD NUNC (Latin for ’’What now?")
is a person who is inquisitive
about the latest news or gossip; a
busybody. That would describe both
me and this column. It covers va-
rious newsworthy events that don’t
merit longer stories. To para-
phrase a famous newspaper’s slogan:
"All the news that fits, we’ll
print , "
I didn’t get a free trip to
Chicago March 1, 1985. I was
invited -- then disinvited -- to
appear on Kup’s Show, a syndicated
television interview program hosted
by Chicago Sun-Times columnist Irv
Kupcinet.
Kup’s Show’ host Irv Kupcinet never got
to interview a NAMBLA spokesman after
Chicago s Channel 11 refused to air the
xoposed sepment-
Host television station WTTW
went gaga when they learned Feb-
ruary 28 that I would appear.
Chicago Gay 1 if e did a reasonable
story on the affir (Gaylife
3/7/85).
In contrast, WJNO in West Palm
Beach, FL had me on a talk show De-
cember 19 . The format was inter-
view; host Barry Young was a plu-
perfect jerk. His terra of man-boy
love was "homosexual statuatory
rape." I did manage to say twice
that NAMBLA is in the Manhattan di-
rectory and give our full address
once before being cut off.
I reveived a post card several
days later saying "Recently I had
the good fortune to hear you on a
talk show. . . Let me assure you
that I support your good works!!"
Such exposure is more, to our
advantage than otherwise, at least
as long as we appear to be rational
advocates. There was one curious
exchange: Barry asked the size of
our membership. After hearing me
say, "About 500," jerk Young said
that the FBI had told him MO-50.
Has the Fat Boys Institute decided
QUID NUNC
to denigrate what they can’t de-
stroy?
*
More than 170 million children
worldwide are involved in child
prostitution and pornography. This
ridiculous figure was given by Ken-
neth Hermann, professor in the SUNY
system. (Reuters) He is also a
board member of Defense for Chil-
dren International. This is a
private organization founded in
1979 and based in Geneva, Swit-
zerland, Hermann has been making
numerous media apperances lately.
A moment’s thought shows how pre-
posterous his calculation is. The
world population is about six bil-
lion, Assume one third (two bil-
lion) are younger than 16. That
would mean almost 105t of all chil-
dren were involved in prostitution
or pornography.
A New Jersey Corrections
Department Director of Admin-
istration - Herbert Blumenthal, 60,
- was charged with 10*1 counts of
prostitution, etc. with at leat IM
youth aged 13-18. (Star-Ledger ,
Newark, NJ 2/7/85)
A Burlington City, NJ group
has formed for those falsely ac-
cused of sexual assault on chil-
dren. Lawrence Spiegel, a spokes-
person for the group, said revenge
can* sometimes be a motive in
charges of sexual assault. His
group is modeled after VOCAL (Vic-
tims of Child Abuse Laws). A VOCAL
representative in Hampton, MN said
members "were becoming victims of a
kind of national hysteria caused by
the media, the federal government
and social workers who want to make
their Jobs look important."
About 2,000 Scott County
Residents have petitioned Governor
Rudy Perploh to remove Prosecuting
Attorney Kathleen Morris because of
the way she handlded the Jordan
child-sex case. Cindy Buchanra one
of the 24 adults charged in the in-
vestigation, submitted the petition
(Daily News, NYC 3/10/85)
Dr, Kevin McGovern, a
professor at the Oregon Health
Sciences University and entre-
preneur of sexual abuse conferences
Insists that there is a sex-
offender treatment that works.
The offender is asked to write
down a scenario of an "exciting"
incident. At the moment of arou-
sal, he inhales ammonia. McGovern
says the procedure, repeated often,
works, (Dally News. NYC,
2/14/84) He may become as famous
as the man who invented electrified
sheets for bed-wetters.
There have been numerous
proposed legal changes since the
McMartin et al child sexual abuse
hysteria erupted. Tennessee has a
bill pending that presents a fairly
typical package. Also typically,
the legislator introducing it des-
cribes it as the "nation’s most
comprehensive." (The Tennessean.
2/8/85) Some provisions NAMBLA
should support; others are plain
awful .
Children would be qualified as
witnesses. Meaning that judges
would not make a determination in
each separate case. This provision
would be supported by NAMBLA under
the general idea that children are
people. Videotape would be used
with the right to cross examine, I
personally like the idea of video-
tape as saving time and trouble for
everyone .
Several other provisions seem
aimed at the creation of a child-
abuse bureaucracy; l.e.: a central
registry; a child sexual team in
each county; mandated courses in
child-abuse detection, etc. for
police, Judges and doctors; a
background check for child-care
workers; and a treatment program
for offenders.
Sex abuse classes for kids are
an interesting idea. It is some-
what arousing to see authorities
trying to teach sex-avoidance with-
out teaching anything about sex.
Gems of wisdom from the
Pedophilia Squad at Manhattan South
Public Morals. The Squad has seven
members and 35 active cases. The
Ped Squad does not participate in
Times Square arrests.
According to Sgt. Sam Al-
bertic. Squad supervisor, "There
are no child prostitutes. These
kids are doing this to survive."
(Are adult prostitutes just in it
for fun?)
Captain Jerome Piazza, head of
Manhattan South Public Morals, said
"A pedo will give a kid money, buy
him clothes, take care of him."
(The fiends!) Of NAMBLA, Officer
Tom Pippa said, "They are the root
of all evil and they don’t like
us." (Your columnist here resists
the urge to pronounce on the mental
states and moral values of police
and the nature of evil.) Pippa
closed the article with the state-
ment, "Two years is enough (in the
Ped Squad). You get emotionally
involved with the kid; then the
arrest is made and what else can
you do. The kid goes back on the
street. , . . and, probably, finds
another pedo." ( Chelsea-Clinton
News. NYC 3/14/85)
Florida will drop a case
(reported last issue) against a 12-
year-old boy who had sex with a 10-
year-old girl if the boy agrees to
undergo counseling. We don’t know
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if charges against the girl were
dropped. As Assistant State
Attorney Leon Botkin said, "The law
in Florida is that when someone has
sex with someone under the age of
12, consent isn't an issue. Tech-
nically, that is rape." (Miami
Herald . 2/2M/85) To quote Dickens:
"If the law thinks that, then the
law is an ass . "
«
Rand Lusly, one of the 16 men
arrested in August in the Porn-
Prosti tution-Sex Abuse-Any thing to
Get the Public ' s-Mind-Off-Police-
Graft raids in Philadelphia has
been found guilty of transfer of a
boy-sex magazine. He received no
sentence, however. Lusby lent the
magazine to a policeman.
(Philadelphia Gay Mewsi
Child sex abuse reports are up
by 35% according to the National
Committee for the Prevention of
Child Abuse. The actual number is
123,000. Total child abuse reports
rose to 1,273,000.
(Philadelphia Gay News 3/7/85)
A school photographer, Philip
Stuckey, was arrested on sex
charges February 15. An earlier
arrest on February 2, on kid-porn
charges, was dropped for lack of
evidence. The police burst in and
found, him with two 1 1-year-old • boy s
(Dally News, 2/17/85) A vague\ru-
mor has reach Quid Nunc that he was
arrested because he refused to be-
come and FBI informant. The
rumor's validity is unknown.
#
Sexual Abuse Prevention: A
Study for Teenagers by Marie M.
Fortune (United Church Press) is
one sexual abuse book that hits the
right targets. One quote:
"Teaching adolescents that
they have the right to say "no" to
abusive sexual contact they do not
choose has, as its corollary, the
right to say "yes" to non-abuslve
sexual contact that they do choose.
, . Young people have the right,
the responsibility and the capacity
to make decisions about their sex-
ual activity and the right to ha
their decisions respected," -
WHAT CHILDREN NEED, WE ALL . NEED
condensed from: Escape From Childhood,
by John Holt*
"A Child's world." . ''To experience
childhood." "To be allowed to be a
child." Such words seem to say that
childhood is a time and an experience very
different from the rest of life and that
it is the best part of our lives. It is
not, and no one know it better than child-
ren. Children want to grow up. They
want, part of the time, to be around the
kind of adults who like being grownup and
who think of growing up as an exploration
and adventure, not the process of being
chased out of some garden of Eden. They
do not want to hear older people say, as
many often do, "These are the best years
of your life." What could be more dis-
couraging? For they are going to grow up,
whether they want to or not. What they
want to hear from older people is the kind
of message my best friend sent me on ray
thirteenth birthday; "The best is yet to
come." He was right, it was, and I still
feel that way.
"To be allowed to experience child-
hood,” means being allowed to do some
things and being spared — or forbidden —
having to do others. It means adults will
decide, without often or even asking
children what they think, that some ex-
periences are good for children while
others are not. It means for a child that
adults are all the time deciding what is
best for you and then letting or making
you do it. But instead of trying to make
sure that all children get only those
experiences we thinks are, good for them I
would rather mal« available to children,
as to everyone else, the widest possible
range of experiences (except those that
hurt others) and let them choose those
they like, best.
If we .want children to grow not Just
in age, size and strength, but in under-
standing, awareness, kindness, confidence,
competence and Joy, then they need access
to experiences that will build these qual-
ities. And they need the right to shun
and flee experiences that do the opposite,
experiences all too common in the lives of
most children — >the experience of terror,
of humiliation, of contempt, of endless
anxiety, of deception, of lack of trust,
of being denied choice, of being pushed
around, of having their lives filled with
dull and pointless and repeated drudgery.
But we all need this, so much that the
lack of it is making us sick.
We all have a right to feel that we
are not Just what other people, even ex-
perts, say we are — not Just this race, or
color, or occupation, or income level, or
personality profile — but that there is an
essence that is much larger, more un-
knowable, and more important. And it is a
delusion to believe that even if this
right is denied to adults it may somehow
be given to children, that they have a
right to a dignity and identity where no
one else has. Q
♦Escape From Childhood can be purchased
for , $4.50, plus $ .75 postage, through
Holt Associates, 729 Boylston Street,
Boston, MA 02116.
CALENDAR®
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meeting. Call.
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meeting: 5 p.m., United
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North Western Ave. #202
APRIL l6_Horatlo Alger Chapter,
NYC: 8 p.m., Our Studio,
147 West 24 St. (between
6 and 7 Ave, ) , 2nd fir.
Jin Cooper will discuss
his experience with the
criminal Justice system;
a strategy session will
complete the evening.
APRIL 2?_San Francisco Chapter
meeting: 11 a.m., Pride
Center, 890 Hayes St.
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meeting. Call.
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meeting: 5 p.m., United
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The South- wind brings
Life I sianshinei and desire t
And on every mount and meadow
Breathes aromatic firei
But over the dead he has no i>ower*
The lost, the lost, he cannot restore!
But over the dead he has no power,
And, looking over the hills - I rooum
The darling who shall not return.
I see ray empty house,
I see my trees repair their boughs i
And he, the wondrous child,
Whose silver warble wild
Outvalued every pulsing sound
Within the air's cerulean round.
The hyacinthine boy, for whom
Mom well might break and April bloom,
The gracious boy, who did adorn
The world whereinto he was bom.
And by his countenance repay
The favour of the loving Day,
Has disappeared from the day's eyei
Far and wide she cannot find himi
My hopes pursue, they cannot bind him*
Now Love and Pride, alas.' in vain,
•Up and down their glances strain.
The painted sled stands where it stood j
The kennel by the corded wood;
His gathered sticks to stanch the wall
Of the snow-tower, when snow should fall*
The ominous hole he dug in the sand,
And childhood's castles built or planned*
His daily haunts I well discern.
The poultry-yard, the shed, the barn.
And every inch of graden ground
Paced by the blessed feet around.
From the roadside to the brook
Whereinto he loved to look.
Step the meek fowls where erst they ranged*
The wintry garden lies unchanged*
The brook into the stream runs on*
Put the deep-eyed boy is gone.
- extracted from the "Threnody",
by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
★
EDITOR & COLLECTIVE: Renato Corazza o. Bill Andriette Richard Boyer Floyd Conaway <> Chris Farrell
Linda Prankel o- Peter Melzer -o. Peter Reed Robert Rhodes o David Thorstad
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persons with limited incomes may pay $10 and prisoners may receive
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may 1985
mmMMmmrnm
LA COP PERJURES HIMSELF
"krone" by KEVIN ESSER -
7 93 3 -9
TO PROTECT AND SERVE ... HIMSELF
On November 50, 1984, Detective
William Dworin of the Los Angeles Police
Department's Sexually Exploited Child Unit
appeared before the joint hearing on Child
Pornography and Pedophilia of the U.S*
Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Inves^
tigations and Subcommittee on Juvenile
Justice.
After stating the duties and respon-
sibilities given to the Unit, Dworin went
on to say;
"Cases originating in Los Angeles have
resulted in the arrest and conviction of
child molesters and producers of child
pornography... and have identified persons
who are actively involved in pedophile
organizations world-wide. These organiza-
tions ostensibly advocate the sexual lib-
eration of children and children's rights
and are lobbying to eliminate the age of
sexual consent for juveniles who
'willingly* engage in sexual activity with
adults.
"...Because the pedophile believes
that society is wrong in condemning the
sexual activities between adults and 'con-
senting' children, groups have been formed
to lobby for changes in laws relating to
molestation and to justify the groups’
stand concerning the sexual liberation of
children and children's, rights. Such
groups as the North American Man/Boy
Lovers [sic] Association (NAMBLA)...have
been publicly recognized in the media.
"...Although these groups operate un-
der the guise of children’s rights and
freedom of speech and the free press, they
are, in fact, encouraging the sexual
molestation of children. Pedophiles join-
ing these groups are frequently placed in
contact with other pedophiles having the
same preference in children. Recognition
by the pedophile that others have similar
sexual interests, demonstrated by the
exchange of child pornography, encourages
the pedophile to act out his desire.
These organizations function as support
groups where pedophiles are encouraged to
molest children, recognizing that others
have the same interests and are also en-
gaged in sexual activity with children.
"...The Los Angeles Police Department
recognizes that many child molest victims
are seduced into the acts and into child
pornography and become 'willing victims,'
victims who do not want to get their 'best
friend,' the pedophile, into trouble. The
Sexually Exploited Child Unit has. ..moni-
tored the various organizations and has
identified members of these groups.
Through surveillance and undercover opera-
tions the Unit has also identified juven-
iles frequenting the suspects' residence
and through interviews, obtained crime
reports resulting in the arrest and con-
viction of many pedophiles-"
LAPD DETECTIVE WILLIAM DVORIN’S LIES
BEFORE THE UNITED STATES SENATE HEARING
ON CHILD PORNOGRAPHY AND PEDOPHILIA
Dworin lied in his many false claims
about NAMBLA. To being with, NAMBLA is
not now, nor ever has been a lobbying
group. We speak out against unfair legis-
lation and make a public call for changes
in the laws, but have never lobbied any
candidate or official for legislative
'changes. NAMBLA has never encouraged the
molestation — sexual or otherwise — of any-
one by anyone. NAMBLA has not established
a correspondence among members (except
prisoners) and has not organized or pro-
moted the exchange of information about
boys and has never exchanged, promoted,
produced, distributed or allowed the ex-
change of pornography. NAMBLA has encour-
aged everyone to speak out their desire to
make our society a better and freer place
for people of all ages. Unlike Dworin we
do not believe that freedom of speech or
freedom of the press is a "guise," but
that they are rights granted to all citi-
zens by the First Amendment to the Consti-
tution. And we are concerned when a mem-
ber of the police, the very same people
whose duty is ensure that those rights are
respectedj derisively refers to them as "a
guise. "
NAMBLA is an organization which does
not act secretly. Membership is not
screened and while we request that only
those who agree with our aims join, in
fact anyone with the , membership fee and a
mailing address for receiving our monthly
Bulletin can become a member. Los Angeles
chapter meetings are always as well pub-
licized as we can make them and are always
open to anyone who chooses to attend and
to participate in a calm, rational manner.
Neither a NAMBLA's membership nor an
orientation towards man/boy relationships
is required. "Monitoring" NAMBLA is a sad
joke, when it involves government funds
that could be better used to supplement
inadequate, facilities for homeless youth.
It is time that the abuses and the waste-
ful use of public funds be ended and that
official lies told about NAMBLA be ex-
posed. The FBI has stated publicly in the
New York Times that membership in NAMBLA
is not sufficient grounds for investiga-
tion into a person's private life. When
will the LAPD get this message?
NAMBLA has acted wholly within the law
in working for the emotional and legal
support of men and boys suffering oppres-
sion because of their sexual orientation;
to educate the public about inter-genera-
tional relationships; to take stands on a
variety of issues, including the replace-
ment of age-of-consent laws with laws that
will both protect young people form un-
wanted sexual advances and leave them free
to determine the content of their advances
and leave them free to determine the con-
tent of their own sexual experience,
abolition of the military draft, protec-
tion of young people form abuse by par-
ents, teachers and others, etc. NAMBLA
has always avoided any activities which
could be construed as illegal. It is
unconscionable and illegal for Detective
Dworin and others to harass NAMBLA members
or smear NAMBLA before the U.S. Senate as
an organization established for the pur-
pose of "encouraging the sexual molesta-
tion of children." The scandal has lasted
long enough! D
STEERING COMMITTEE HIGHLIGHTS
The fifty-fifth meeting of the Steering
Committee was held on March 16, 1985.
The Journal committee reported that
selection and typesetting have been
completed, layout is in process with
publication due in May. Format will be the
journal type.
We have applied for group affiliation in
the Anti-Slavery Society. A Steering
Committee member has donated the
membership fee.
$500 was voted to assist Valida Davila in
winding up Childhood Sexuality Circle
affairs and recovering material seized by
the police last June.
A four-man delegation will represent us
at the International Cay Association
conference in Toronto from June 30 to July
7, 1985.
A doctoral candidate has proposed an
anonymous survey of NAMBLA membership.
A committee was selected to meet with her
to formulate a more detailed proposal for
submission to the Steering Committee. □
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Vienna Choir Boys
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THE PHILADELPHIA STORY
A CONCLUSIOI^
In a statement issued on February 5,
1985, concerning the lack of/pres€nce of
material related to pedophilia on the
shelves of "Giovanni’s Room" in
Philadelphia, FEDERATIE WERKGROEPEN, the
Belgium-Plemish homophile organization in
part says:
"¥e should be well aware of the facts
that homosexual oppression is just one
part of a universal oppression of sexual-
ity, of which pedophilia oppression is
another part. So if we are willing to
fight homosexual oppression in a fundamen-.
tal way, we can't avoid to fight universal'
sexual oppression, including pedophilic
oppression! It is a mistake to consider
it to be possible that a sharp division
can be made between people on grounds of
their sexual desire, as if they were all
clearly different groups. It is precisely
of this intermingling of the various types
of sexual desire (homo-, hetero-, pedo-,
etc.) that the gay movement cannot avoid
the need to concern itself with pedo-
philia. Gays have often been concerned to
prevent people form 'pigeonholing* them.
Why should they want to do the same thing
to pedophiles?"
"Of course we know that within the
homosexual community, pedophi lia has been
for a long time just as insuperable a
taboo as it was for many heterosexuals.
And we know as well that some radical
feminist lesbians or lesbian groups in
their simplistic and unfounded reasoning
are sometimes worse than extreme-right
conservatives. It is not so that some gay
groups (as ours) came to their actual
positive attitude towards pedophilia by
'heavenly enlightenment*. On the con-
trary, it is the many discussions that
have been held during the past years that
have led to a gradual alteration in the
attitude (it is still a hot potato for
several gay men and women within our
group). But we always should keep in
mind: are we struggling for GAY rights,
or are we struggling for gay adaptation to
STRAIGHT rights?"
"GIOVANMI’S ROOM" has maintained that
during the crisis, NAMBLA's literature
although not on display, had been avail-
able on request, while lawyers studied
possible liabilities. At the present
NAMBLA's literature is available and on
display. □
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UNICORN MAIL
Monoeerous One:
The observations you made in
your farewell column (in the
January /February 1985 issue of the
Bulletin) were substantially accu-
rate. Graphic and textual material
in NAMBLA publications have fre-
quently portrayed boys as "sexual
objects." Many of the members of
the Association adhere to political
and moral philosophies that can
only be described as "right-
wing." And I freely concede to you
that "NAMBLA members are largely
anti-radical ."
Perhaps it might be fair to
say that you*ve targetted the As-
sociation perfectly when you des-
cribe it as a "koffee klatch (sic)
for closet boy lovers. . ."
Knowing next to nothing about
your background, I can’t be certain
how much history you’ve studied. I
doubt, however, that you’ve been
taught enough about the American
Revolution to know precisely how
radical it was -- particularly in
its ideology. I’m almost certain
that none of your schooling told
the story in its entirety. Though
I’ve no intention of force-feeding
you on the dry dust of times past,
I believe that you’ll find this en-
lightening .
In England, in the 1720*s,
Gordon and Trenchard published a
series of pamphlets ("Essays on
Liberty, Civil and Religious") ti-
tled Cato’s Letters. This series
was perhaps the single most widely
distributed of natural rights phi-
losophy from the scholarly realm
into the less placid arenas of po-
litics and morality.
Its Influence in England was
less profound than in the American
colonies, but it was read through-
out the English-speaking world.
The principles of human rights --
of man’s right to his own life, to
his liberty, to the pursuit of hap-
piness, to freedom of speech -- all
these were laid out before the pub-
lic eye in Cato’s Letters .
People in England and America
met to read Cato’s Letters and to
discuss these radical new ideas.
In the Colonies, these meetings led
to the formation of Committees of
Correspondence and Public Safety.
These Committees would eventually
send delegates to a gathering that
was called the Continental Con-
gress.
You must remember the Second
Continental Congress. The members
of that body were the ones who, on
July , 1776 , did "solemnly publish
and declare, that these united co-
lonies are, and of right ought to
be free and independent states.
But long before Richard Henry
Lee could propose Independence, be-
fore Thomas Jefferson could author
that magnificent expression of the
American mind, before John Hancock
could affix his signature, the
principles on which it stood had to
be defined, debated, wrangled-over
and generally accepted by the peo-
ple of the American colonies.
Where did most of this take
place? Where were Cato’s Letters
read?
In coffee-houses, friend
Unicorn. In coffee-houses.
The seeds of revolution
germinate only in fertile soil. No
society has ever been radically,
permanently changed by any revolu-
tionary movement that was not the
culmination of decades (perhaps
generations) of radical thought.
In the case of the American
Revolution, the radical thought was
that the individual man had the
right to own himself took prece-
dence over the right of any govern-
ment, no matter how constituted.
It was from that right that all the
other rights were derived.
For its time, the concept of
individual rights was a fearsomely
daring notion. Prior to that, each
belonged (in the moat proprie-
tarian sense of that word) to some
sort of tribe. He was owned by the
tribe (or Duchy or Kingdom) the way
a bee is owned by the hive. Have
you any conception of the condi-
tioning -- the centuries of tradi-
tion -- overcome by the people of
Colonial America ("good subjects of
His Majesty, the King," and thereby
his royal property) in altering
their mindset so radically that
they might think of themselves as
individuals, with individual rights
and dignities no less inviolable
than those claimed by the aristo-
crats who "owned" them?
Those who would engender
revolution -- men such as Gordon
and Trenchard and Thou and I
must seek fertile soil in which to
sow our seeds of change. Where we
do not find it, we must carefully
prepare it.
* Putsch , you see, may take
place on the hard metal of city
streets, forced into hot existence
for a brief, tyrannical period by a
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STATE & CHURCH ABUSE OF CHILDREN
IN WEST GERMANY
COULD HITLER'S JUN6EN DO ANY BETTER?
The following paragraphs are taken from
a report on living conditions and the mis-
treatment of children at the Rummelsberg
Children *s Home in Nuremberg, West Germany,
The report set off an official government
investigation. The report was prepared and
circulated by the Indianer Kommune, in
Nuremberg. Over a year later, the investi-
gation languishes.
Knut, who wet his bed like I did,
had a stomach condition and was on
medication. This nun — we called her
Sister, though she certainly didn't
treat us like brothers — knew all
about Knut's illness.
Knut was given special bland food
— until the day he was declared to
be malingering.
That day we were sitting at table,
waiting for the midday meal. It was
going to be pea and noodle soup, one
of my favorites but much too greasy
and highly seasoned for Knut. As
usual, he was getting something more
suited to his state of health.
A young nun was serving the soup
around. When she got to Knut, she
filled his plate with it. He looked
up at her in surprise and asked for
his regular food. For some reason,
she refused, though we all could see
his little dietary pot sitting on
the food cart. The nun spat out,
"You'll eat what the others eat.
This is the end of your malingering.
Now eat up I"
Tears began to trickle down Knut's
cheeks. He begged and pleaded, but
the nun stood firm.
She said she would be glad to feed
him herself if he wouldn't eat on
his own. Everyone at table froze in
silence. Knut stared into his plate
anxiously. His face was pale and his
tears fell into the greasy soup. In
a quavering voice he kept begging
for his regular dietary food.
The nun turned furious and lit into
him like a crazy person and tried to
force him to eat. When she got no-
where, she called the toadies over.
The toadies are a special group in
the Home. They are permitted to do
anything they want to. So they beat
up on the weak and defenseless. We
purchase temporary safety from them
with candy. Knut had given candy,
too, for all the good it did him now.
Instantly the toadies were at the
nun's side. Their faces showed their
contempt for Knut and a kind of
sadistic anticipation. They twisted
Knut's arms behind his chair and
held them there.
Now that Knut was immobilized, the
nun tried to forcefeed him again. He
clenched his lips shut. She grasped
him by the hair and yanked his head
back. Knut clenched his lips even
more tightly shut. The nun grabbed
the spoon sitting in the soup, emp-
tied it, and started hitting him on
the mouth with the rounded side of
the spoon. It sounded like she would
■.knock all his teeth out.
The racket frightened me. Goose-
flesh crawled up my back. I felt
myself suddenly turn cold.
Soon there was blood in the soup.
We still looked on helplessly. A
gurgling sound came up from Knut's
throat. We thought he would die. The
boys close to Knut started whimper-
ing .
The nun's face contorted like the
Devil's. She pinched Knut's nose
closed. Like a rampaging animal, she
now succeeded into ladling one spoon-
ful of soup after another down the
poor boy's throat.
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minority willing to intimidate the
rest of society, A revolution (if
it is to last) has to have roots
planted firmly in the substrate of
a society ready for change, al-
tering the social order as it
grows .
We in the Association aren't
interested in a Putsch . We're
neither Nazis nor Bolsheviks. Our
initials read: "NAMBLA,” not
"NSDAP," not "NKVD."
In order to prepare the soil
for the seeds we wish to sow, we
must keep alive the free discussion
of our radical ideas, the most ra-
dical of which is that children as
well as adults have the right to
self-ownership. There are damned
few publications in which that kind
of discussion can continue, and as
the straight majoritarian tyranny
continues its reaction their ranks
are further depleted. Yesterday tt
Nagpie and Contact ! ; today it's
minor Problems. Will tomorrow see
the suppression of the NAMBLA Bul-
letin and Journal?
If we have any hope of nu-
turlng this precious revolution of
ours, we need a forum in which to
discuss our ideas, to debate our
principles, to communicate with
each other and with the society we
wish to change.
We need the Bulletin.
It is our "coffee-house," the
place where we meet to define our-
selves, to wrangle and snarl and
learn from each other. Its col-
lective is our "Committee of
Correspondence and Public Safe-
ty," If we are ever to achieve
anything, the Bulletin will be as
important to us as Cato's Letters
were to the revolutionaries who
first dared to asset "that all men
are created equal."
If the continued survival and
advancement of the Bulletin re-
quires us to sometimes suffer
through panegyrics on "the latest
boy underwear scenes," we're
obliged to tolerate such mild
invon ven iences , It's foolish to
become utterly preoccupied with
"Ideological purity" in an era
wherein we must fight tooth and
nail just to keep our oppressors
from stilling whatever small voice
Bulletin might provide.
If you leave the Bulletin . if
you resign from our "Committee of
Public Safety," you weaken it by
depriving it of your considerable
resources. If you return to that
(often silly) little publication,
you strengthen It by virtue of your
presence and your opposition to the
"boy-sex" bushwah.
If you are a radical, if you
s r e committed to the advancement of
children's self-determination, if
^ believe that you have some-
thing to tell the readers of the
Bulletin , then you have betrayed
your convictions, you committments
and your beliefs by abandoning the
field of battle. What's more,
you've not even abandoned it to the
enemy; you given up, like Achilles,
in a sulk because your erstwhile
allies failed to please you
sufficiently,
1 ask you to reconsider your
resignation. You're needed on the
battlefield, not in your tent. The
free men are few enough -- and
there are fewer of us every day as
the tyrants kill us, imprison us or
force us to flee the land.
This ka f feekla tsch for closet
cases that we call our Bulletin is
no grand battleground, 1^1 1 ^ant
you that. There is no Little Round
Top here for us to seize and hold
against the enemy. There is no
wall to storm here, no Lexington
Green to bleed and die upon -- but
it is our battleground never-
theless ,
If we were to yield it to a
superior enemy, beaten back by
overwhelming force, we would at
least have served our own sense of
honor. To depart, however, because
we dislike the foibles and fan-
tasies of the men who stand
willingly beside us in the name of
our common cause. Is nothing less
that desertion. It has no honor,
no dignity, and no hope of success
-- because the enemy we do not meet
on this battlefield today will
surely come into our homes and
destroy us tomorrow.
Take up the fight again,
Unicorn. You weren't born to sulk
in your tent. You have too many
years to live, too many years to be
wasted under the brutal hand of
straight tyranny. It is in your
own best interests to see this re-
volution through. And you know it.
Laissez faire,
-- Adam Selene
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Dear Unicorn:
I was tremendously impressed with
your essay "The Enraged Youth" in the
November NAMBLA Bui letin. Your uncom-
promising idealism, your refusal to
accept half-measures, and your insis-
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He vomited under the torture. He
then started choking on his vomit.
One of the toadies saw Knut's eyes
roll upwards. He stopped laughing
and pushed the nun's hand away. For
a moment, the nun came to and she
let go of Knut. He leaned forward
and threw up again. The blood and
vomit made a nasty green mess on the
table .
Some of the boys were now sobbing
out loud. A few had even soiled
their pants. One was crying for his
mother .
But the becalmed nun seemed more
determined than ever in her madness.
She grabbed the spoon up again and
scraped vomit off the table onto a
plate. Pounding Knut ferociously on
the back of his neck, she made him
eat his own vomit from the plate.
If a loving God really exists, I
thought, he will surely send a bolt
of lightening to strike down this
crazy nun.
Two boys at another table also
threw up at the sight of what was
happening. The toadies went over and
gleefully smeared vomit all over
them, I too vomited and for this I
was later punished and beaten. [...]
Control your sexual urges, the
priests tell us. Otherwise you're no
better than an unleashed dog driven
mad with lust. Your body is an enemy.
Learn to vanquish it. □
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fence on fighting injustice and ageism
wherever they occur should serve as an
example of political integrity to every
NAMBLA member. «
For a while, like others, I wondered
whether you really existed. (I remem-
bered from my childhood Thurber's tale
of The Unicorn in the Garden, with its
refrain, "the unicorn is a mythical
beast," and I worried that the Bulletin
collective might have felt about an
articulate twelve-year-old faggot some-
what as Vol-taire is supposed to have
felt about God-- that if he did not
actually exist, perhaps it was expedient
to invent him.) If I had any remaining
doubts about your reality, however, your
account of your participation in the
November 27, 1982 anti-Klan demonstra-
tion in Washington laid them to rest.
The experiences you relate are too in-
tense, too personal, and too convincing
to be anything but authentic.
I don’t agree with those who have
said you are too radical. There is a
reformist wing within NAMBLA which hopes
to win gradual acceptance for boy-lovers
through educating straight society about
our true nature. This hope is illusory
and politically naive. Education is
important. We must constantly combat
the lies and slanders of our enemies by
energetica.1 ly publicizing the truth
about boy-love. But only political
organization and struggle can bring
about any permanent change in the way we
are seen and treated. The few who hold
power in our society perceive us as a
threat, not because the misunderstand
us, but because to the we are a threat.
Our non-conformist behavior challenges
the racist, sexist, and against assump-
tions they use to manipulate and exploit
the majority of their fellow-citizens.
These powerful few will never willingly
give up either their privileges or their
stranglehold on the political process in
this county. Only through struggle, not
through education, will people of color,
homosexuals, women, and youth ever
achieve social and economic equality and
sexual and personal freedom.
We should not be surprised that
organizations of the radical left, which
understand this tinith, have been almost
alone in giving NAMBLA (and similar
groups abroad) consistent and principled
political support. I am aware of two
leftist organizations in particular, the
Spartacist League and the Revolutionary
Socialist League (RSL), which have
strong records of support for NAMBLA and
for children’s rights to sexual self-
determination. Both publish excellent
newspapers which are available at very
reasonable rates. The spartacist
League’s bi-weekly Workers Vanguard cost
only five dollars per year and is avail-
able for Spartacist Publishing Co., Box
1377 GPO, New York, NY 10116. A year’s
subscription to their excellent feminist
quarterly. Women and Revolution, and to
their youth paper are only two dollars
each. The RSL’s monthly, Torch/La
Antorcha, also only five dollars a year,
is available for RSL, P.O. Box 1288, New
York, NY 10116. It has a section in
Spanish and will be sent free to priso-
ners upon request. The RSL has a very
strong and active gay membership. It is
unfortunate that more NAMBLA members do
not read the publications of such- organ-
izations as these. We might have a
better sense of how our struggle is
connected with the struggles of other
oppressed groups.
I am saddened to learn that your are
dissatisfied with NAMBLA and have de-
cided to leave us. You are right, of
course, to be dissatisfied. But I think
you are wrong to leave. NAMBLA, with
all its flaws, is the only organization
of its kind in the United States. It
deserves the support of everyone who is
involved in or sympathetic towards
intergenerational sexual relationships.
Even more, NAMBLA need your voice. You
correctly point out that many NAMBLA
members are political conservatives, and
their opinions often find expression in
the Bui letin. To date, however, our
adopted political positions remain uni-
formly progressive. To maintain this
record, to extend it, and to educate
conservative boy-lovers about the polit-
ical implications of their sexuality,
NAMBLA needs every available articulate
spokesman for the radical point of view.
Those of us who have agreed with what
you have stood for in NAMBLA will badly
miss your help in the work we are trying
to do.
NAMBLA is a support group for boy-
lovers. It would be inconsistent with
this role for us to be politically ex-
clusionary. We must welcome all boy-
lovers, however undeveloped or incom-
pletely developed their political aware-
ness. This diversity is rightly expres-
sed in our press. You are not the first
to become uncomfortable with this.
Other radical members, for reasons
similar to yours, have left NAMBLA be-
fore. Right-wing boy-lovers, too, un-
happy with our political statements,
often quit the organization. I can
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"Sexual autonomy is a human right in
terms of which people define the meaning
of their lives. In particular, the
persecution of homosexuals, for that is the
name we may now properly give it,
deserves not constitutional validation, but
systematic and unremitting attack. To
appeal to particular attitudes... is
precisely to withhold human rights when,
as a shield against majoritarian oppression,
they are most exigently needed.
Homosexuals have the right to reclaim the
aspects of the self that society has
traditionally compelled them to deny; they,
like other persons, have the right to
center work and love in a life they can
authentically call their own."
— David A. J. Richards,
Sex, Drugs, Death and the Law (1982)
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understand this, but I deplore it.
NAMBLA needs the support of every mem-
ber. Conservatives and radicals alike
ought to work within the organization to
promote their own point of view, and to
try to learn from one another.
Your final column in the
January/February Bulletin raises the
issue of the sexual objectification of
youth. This is a very important issue,
and one which NAMBLA often prefers to
ignore. Yours is perhaps the perfect
voice to call for its discussion. I am
sorry you are doing so only now, because
I fear that with your departure NAMBLA
may be content to ignore the issue
again. I agree with you that too many
NAMBLA members, myself included, have a
tendency to see boy (as Jeff of Minor
Problems put it) as "slim, golden nymphs
to be sucked off.” If this attitude is
allowed to dominate a man's actual rela-
tions with boys, it can be demeaning,
depersonalizing, and exploitative* I
join you in calling for a heightened
awareness of this as a problem for boy-
lovers. NAMBLA should be making an
effort to explore the reasons for this
attitude, and to help boy-lovers strug-
gle against it.
I think we must take care, however,
not to attempt to deal with the problems
sexual objectification raises by con-
demning the expression of sexuality
generally. To have or express feelings
of purely sexual attraction for boys
does not imply any lack of concern for
their welfare, and to equate such feel-
ings with sexual exploitation is incor-
rect and politically reactionary. Such
an equation quickly leads, for example,
to the blanket condemnation of porno-
graphy, and eventually to an anti-sex
stance such as much of the feminist
movement has unfortunately adopted.
Needless to say, this is the total con-
tradiction to everything NAMBLA stands
for.
I will leave it to Kevin Esser, if
he wishes, to defend his writii'gs
against your criticism. I am not at all
sure that the boys in Tangerine Daze are
being reduced to mere sexual objects,
and besides I think there is a level of
irony by means of which the author
undercuts and criticizes his narrator's
sexual preoccupation. But even if
Esser’s stories are, as you suggest,
less than politically progressive, I
think they still have a place in the
Bui letin. In our repressive society,
many boy- lovers lead lives that are far
from sexually fulfilled. One of
NAMBLA’s functions is to provide them
with a milieu in which their sexual
feelings, whether progressive or not,
can be comfortably and completely ex-
pressed. Kevin Esser's streetboys may
be as close as some of them will ever
come to an open and relaxed sexuality
with boys. I cannot see that it is any
purpose of NAMBLA's to exercise a cen-
sorship over their fantasies and dreams.
I wish you the best in your new
association with Minor Problems. I am
sure it will be productive, and I look
forward to seeing the results. You will
be a force of great importance in our
movement for many years to come. I hope
I will see the day when you will again
find NAMBLA a worthy forum for your
contributions.
In struggle,
David Watson
Dear NAMBLA,
I feel quite bad about the Unicorn leaving
the Bulletin. My boyfriend Rob (who is 12)
thinks the Unicorn was right to quit and
agrees completely with what the Unicorn said.
I mean, hell, he’s always bitching at me about
using him as a sex object and not really being
too concerned about his rights.
I personally feel the Unicorn made some
valid points in his final article. Perhaps of
late the Bulletin has become a little obsessed
with showing pictures of cute little boys, Rob
wants to know why the Bulletin doesn’t have
more pictures of men so he would have some-
thing to look at ,
In conclusion, the Unicorn said that not all
bop want to get their cocks sucked. Well,
neither do all men want their cocks sucked.
— Peter ‘
Dear Unicorn,
Maybe it is presumptuous of me
to attempt to answer you parting
piece in the Bulletin . I do so
because I am sitting here waiting
to learn that my trial begins in a
couple of days. Sitting here as I
have done for six-plus months
waiting to lose several years out
of my life for a three-year rela-
tionship with a boy I care about
very much.
I feel your parting piece was
aimed in part at me.’ And I think
you are wrong. As much as I try to
understand your struggle, have you
tried to understand my struggle?
Being an adult does not bring all
the answers, does not bring all the
power, does not end the frus-
trations. I am no more free than
are you. Surely you know that
being an adult does not auto-
matically bring economic success or
the right to live your life ac-
cording to your own beliefs. We
are all prisoners in this so-called
democratic, free society of ours.
I want to answer your column
point by point. Not necessarily to
disagree. Probably, all that you
wrote has some truth to It. But
seeing the other person’s viewpoint
is a two-way street. You and I are
two sides of the same struggle -
the right to be who we are.
Will ray attorney call today to
tell me my trial gets underway to-
morrow? I am afraid of that phone
call, because of what it could
mean. More than once I’ve wished I
were dead rather than having to
face going Into a' courtroom. It is
only the love and support of a
friend who is a teenager that has
allowed me to keep going even when
it has looked totally hopeless.
And it still doesn't look good.
The laws don't care about the fac-
tors that really should decide this
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whole matter. I guess my present
situation, in my mind, gives me
some perspective about the Issues
you raised.
I am not right-wing. I am not
left-wing, either. The definition
of radical is: "A sharp departure
from the usual or traditional; dis-
posed to the making of extreme
changes in existing views, habits,
conditions or institutions." I am
a radical of no political persua-
sion. To me, right-wing and left-
wing are two sides of the same
coin. Dictatorship by an indi-
vidual or by a collective is still
dictatorship. Everybody is hung up
on being accepted. Accepted by the
leftists or by the Establishment or
by some either group. Acceptance is
not ray objective. Rather, what I
seek, what we all should be
seeking, is the right of self-
determination in every aspect of
our lives. Meaning how I conduct
my life is nobody’s business except
the person with whom I am sharing a
relationship. And even that has
its limits.
Everybody is oppressed in one
way or another. Because it is part
of being human to be selfish to
some degree. Altruism is as rare
as a perfect diamond. Am I bad
because I have needs and wants? Am
I bad because I am a human being
and not some political ideal? Just
living through each day can take
all the energy a person has.
.1 would love it if more
persons of a younger age wrote for
the Bulletin . Reading your column
has always been a highlight for me.
It is difficult to address
your objections to some of the sto-
ries and pictures that have ap-
peared in the Bulletin . Have you
considered that because of the
state of our society, the fantasies
that these bring about are all some
of us have? That a picture can in-
duce the fantasy of a total rela-
tionship, that said fantasy is all
that makes life worth living.
Your arguments are valid to a
point. It is not valid to automa-
tically presume that a certain pic-
ture or story induces a certain
attitude in everybody. What is de-
rived from a story depends soley
upon the state of mind of the per-
son doing the reading. The same
with pictures.
Photography as an art form
often calls for the posing of the
model, seeking to make a statement
about beauty. You must remember
that we are a society obsessed with
sex and at the same time deeply
afraid of sex. In a society with a
healthier, more open attitude about
sex, perhaps the pictures and sto-
ries you complain about would not
be possible. But that is a "what
if" situation. Certainly NAMBLA
should be in the lead of bringing
this about. One good way to do
this is to get persons your age
writing stories from their perspec-
tive and taking and submitting
photographs .
I know this is asking a great
deal, as younger persons generally
do not have the access to NAMBLA,
because they are the prisoners of
their parents. Even if a young
person manages to join NAMBLA, and
I have no idea in most instances
how they would even find out about
our existence, how would he receive
the Bulletin and other material?
We both know that kids do not usu-
ally have the right of privacy in
their own homes, that even if pa-
rents do not read their mail they
do ask about it.
Kids need to organize them-
selves. A very difficult task that
has been attempted in the past.
But you do need to organize and get
out there and make a lot of noise.
And it needs to be done without
adults. It can be done. We are
your allies, but the initiative
needs to come from you. Demon-
strate. Start your own busi-
nesses. Raise the consciousness of
your fellow young people that you
have the right for total consi-
deration on a par with any adult.
Talk to other kids in school, on
the playground, in the video ar-
cades. Raise a stink against the
adult attitude that they auto-
matically assume to know what is
best for you, which apparently in-
cludes a number of NAMBLA mem-
bers. Self-determination is not
something one is granted but
something one must fight for.
I consider myself to be a
caring and understanding person.
At least I try to be. I also have
my own set of values. I think it
is proper for me to share these
values with a young friend. Share
— not demand tha he follow them.
I am guilty of wanting a. young
friend to be able to make his own
way in the world. I desire that he
achieve some measure of happi-
ness. But I don’t dictate how he
is to achieve this. Certainly, I
want to prevent him getting into
trouble, if it can be avoided. I’d
also do the same if he were my
age. We try to change things , to
the way we feel they should be.
But we must also deal with things
the way they are, whether we work
within the system or rebel against
it .
I take very seriously the
responsibility of the love and
trust another young friend has in
me. Even in my current situation,
I am trying to help him achieve
self-determination. I have always
shared my thinking with him, but
made quite plain that the decisions
are his to make. I have given him
advice, but not demanded that he
follow it. I respect his right to
make his own choices, whether or
not I agree with them.
Pedophelia is one of a range
of human relationships. Unfortu-
nately, the word gives the impres-
sion of a one-sided relationship.
"Love for children," instead of
love shared between a younger
person .
-- John D.
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(excerpted from MAD TO BE SAVED^
a novel being published in April by
Gay Presses of New York)
by
Kevin Esser
Krone sat down next to me on the
couch. He was clearly exhilarated, eager
to get drunk and rowdy, and just as eager
to by my buddy. He was fifteen; I was
twenty-one. Drinking and carousing with
me (an adult in his adolescent eyes) was
different and somehow more exciting than
getting fucked up with other boys his own
age. Yeah, man, this was real deca-
dence!... not just sneakin* beers with a
bunch of goddamn kids. And, in turn, his
contagious exhilaration infected me, mak-
ing my heart thud with newfound schoolboy
giddiness.
By the time Krone and I finally ven-
tured out for cigarettes, his brother
Bobby was snoring from the far corner of
the living room, and empty wine bottle and
six beer cans scattered around his feet
like gifts laid before an idol, I patted
Krone’s back as we headed for the door.
"Just you and me, kid." He came up only
to my shoulder; I found it difficult to
remember that he was already fifteen, in
the full ripeness of adolescence, no
longer a child. "Should we get some more
to drink?"
"Yeah, sure." He climbed into the car
beside me. "Do you have any money?"
"Enough," I said. "Don't worry about
it."
"Thanks."
'Tor what?"
'Tor buying booze and shit like that."
"My pleasure, man." I gunned the car
up the street, towards the liquor store.
"Hey, if it wasn't for you, I'd be drink-
ing alone tonight,"
"Bobby always passes out."
"So does Jesse. I guess it's an occu-
pational hazzard." We paused at an inter-
section, then drove on. The glare of neon
signs and street lights strobed against
the Buick's windshield. I glances around
at Krone, He was staring straight ahead,
grinning, his dark hair catching flashes
of light as we rolled down Main Street.
"Is wine OK?"
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He looked around, nodding. "Sure,
that's great."
Back at the house, each of us armed
with a bottle of Chianti, we found Bobby
and Jesse in the same positions we'd left
them. Roused by our entrance, Jesse open-
ed his eyes with a growl and crawled onto
the floor, where he sprawled out on his
stomach like the victim of an assassin's
bullet. I nudged his foot with my toe.
"Come on, Jess, snap out of it!" No re-
sponse. I turned to Krone and shrugged.
"He makes a lovely corpse. So natural, so
lifelike."
The boy laughed. We sat down side-by-
side on the couch and opened our bottles.
"Well, Krone, here's to us!... two sleepy
people, by dawn's early light, and all
that other hip jazz."
Again Krone giggled. "You're really
crazy," he said. His lips glistened ruby
moist with wine, "You talk different than
most guys."
"Is that good or bad?" I was still
young enough to be threatened by the opin-
ions of others. I looked for sarcasm and
ridicule in every remark, sniffing out
derision like a pig hunting truffles.
"It's not bad," Krone said, shoved by
my insecurity into a rather uncomfortable
position. "You say funny things some-
times, that's all."
"Well, I guess I can live with that."
I clinked his bottle with my own, then
took a long drink. Midnight was closing
in; the final bloody curtain was slowly
descending. From the corner, Bobby gave a
sudden loud snore, shifted his weight off
an undoubtely numb arm, then slumped back
into a deep, silent slumber. Krone and I
looked at each other and smiled. "Man,
what a couple of light-weights," I
sneered.
Krone nodded; he took a swig of wine
as if to seal our alliance, then rested
the bottle between his legs, clutching the
glass neck in one hand like a thin green
hard-on. I took hold of his corduroyed
knee and gave it a squeeze. "But you, my
friend, are definite heavy-weight mater-
ial. A first-rate drinking partner and
all-around good guy." I gave his knee
another caress; encouraged by his wide-
open delighted grin, I laid my arm across
the back of the couch and slid my hand
beneath his hair, onto his warm, slender
neck.
He glanced around at me. "We should
do something."
"Yeah, definitely." I took a quick
guzzle of wine. "Like what?"
"Well... I don't really know." He
pointed to the old John Wayne film flick-
ering in black-and-white splendor on the
antique TV. "But this movie really sucks,
man, I'm getting bored."
Still petting his neck, I tried to
calm the tachycardic thump in my chest.
How far could I go?.., how fast should I
move? Was the boy inviting more intimate
behavior, or was I willfully misreading
his innocent expressions of boyish unrest?
When younger, I had been able — easily, and
without risk — to engage other boys in
sexual horseplay. By the time I was
Krone's age, I had become a master of
disarmingly bashful cajolery; "Hey, have
you ever," and here I would generally take
an artfully timid pause, "have you ever,
like, well, jerked off?" An affirmative
reply would prompt me to greater boldness,
leading almost invariably to gleeful dis-
play of young cocks, then to a bit of
foundling, finally to either a session of
mutial masturbation or (on rare, stunning
occasions) to a quick, breathless blow job.
As I got older, the fear of rejection — and
subsequent social embarrassment— slowed my
sexual activity. I was no longer playing
a child's game. The rules were changing.
And by my twenty-first birthday, the rules
stated that I was out of the game alto-
gether, ineligible, washed up, kaput.
Boys of Krone's age were untouchable, out
of bounds. I could look (no law against
that — yet), but touching was verboten. My
sexual desire — ligitlmate a few years
earlier, natural and understandable, just
a boy's normal adolescent curiosity ex-
pressing itself — could not land my unfor-
tunate hindquarters in jail for twenty
years. Or longer. But what had changed?
I was still willing and eager, and so were
they boys. But someone, somewhere, had
proclaimed me an emotional bastard — ille-
gitimate, dirty; suddenly, by decree of
the calendar, I was a criminal, a sexual
outlaw, a dangerous and desperate abuse of
pure, unwitting children. A molester,
branded with a Scarlet "H" lest some piti-
fully ignorant boy mistake me for a harm-
less, humorous, rather likeable young man
wishing to be his friend. Mustn't have
that!... tsk, tsk, tsk.
I looked at Krone. "What? I wasn't
listening. Sorry."
"I said we should put on some music."
He sat forward. My hand slipped off his
neck and fell limp against the back of the
couch. "You got a stero?"
Kevin Esser
I nodded, pointed vaguely to the
speakers hidden in the room's dim comers.
"What groups do you like?"
Gulping Chianti, Krone lifted his
shoulders in a brief shrug, then lowered
the bottle and wiped his mouth on the
sleeve of his wine- red velour shirt. "I
like almost anybody. Black Sabbath, Alice
Cooper, Pink Floyd, all those guys."
"What about the Stones?"
"Sure, they're OK."
I set ray bottle aside. "The records
are upstairs."
"Can I come up?" I gotta pisa.
"Of course, come on."
My eyes followed his backside as we
climbed the stairs. Near the top, indulg-
ing in a bit of ostensibly fraternal af-
fection, I snarled, "Hey, man, move you
tail," and gave his little ass a couple of
gentle smacks with my hand. He skipped
Pages
quickly up the final two steps, then faced
me with a smile. "Which way to the John?"
’'Behind you, oh blind one."
"You're really crazy," he laughed,
rushing down the hallway.
I felt a sudden surge of panic, as if
something precious were being tom from my
grip. Almost running, I followed Krone
into the bathroom. "I need some aspirin,"
was my excuse for standing beside him as
he opened his pants and sent a yellow
stream of urine splashing into the toilet,
I glanced down twice as he stood peeing,
but could not see what he held hidden in
his hand. "You really did have to go," I
remarked lamely. Grinning slightly and
staring down at himself, he coaxed out a
last golden dribble, then zipped up his
trousers and headed for the door. "Hurry
up," he called over his shoulder. I
hastily popped some aspirin and took a
fast leeik before racing off down the hall-
way in pursuit.
I found the boy in my bedroom, going
through a box of albums. "Here's one,"
and he held up the tattered dust jacket of
STICKY FINGERS. "I like this.”
"Well, let's go downstairs and put it
on."
He nodded, but his eyes remained on
the dust jacket’s bulging blue jeans.
"This is kind of a weird picture, isn't
it. I wounder if it's a really boy, or
just like a painting or something."
"Probably a real guy." I watched him
wander past me, still studying the album's
cover,
"Shit, man," he said, "the dude must
have a big dick, or maybe a boner."
"Hard to say."
"It's called STICKY FINGERS because
he's beating off."
.We were at the bottom of the stairs,
heading for the turntable in the living
room. "Then he's got a boner for sure," I
said. "If he's beating off, I mean."
"Yeah," Krone looked back at me grin-
ning, "right." He performed a quick jack-
off pantomime with one hand. "Ooo," he
whined in a comic falsetto, "I got cum all
over my fingers!"
"Such a messy boy," I said, assuming
the role of fretful grand-mere. "What
shall we do with him? Always getting that
nasty sticky stuff all over my nice clean
carpets. "
Bringing our brief comedy to its cli-
max, Krone wiped his hand slowly back and
forth across my shirt. "Here," he laugh-
ed, "have some cum." Then, as a boffo
finale, he smeared his invisible jism onto
both my cheeks.
"What a disgusting kid," I muttered,
trying to disguise my severe agitation
with a bit of gruff humor. "Your mudder
would be ashamed of yal" And I fell back
weakly onto the couch.
The music crackled to life from the
speakers. On the floor, Jesse stirred;
his arm twitched; his head lifted. He
eyed me for a moment without seeming able
to identify my species, then groaned and
rolled over onto his side. "What the
fuck's goin’ on?"
"Wake up, Jesse, join the party."
Krone turned up the music. "Yeah,
come on!" he guzzled from his wine bottle
till it was nearly empty, then set it down
and began a slow dance around the living
room, clapping his hands to the music's
beat €md shuffling his feet. As if feel-
ing suddenly encumbered, he kicked off his
suede tennis shoes and continued his lan-
guid dance in crimson-stockinged feet,
circling around and round Jesse's reclin-
ing figure like a young dervish drifting
into trance.
Jesse pushed himself up on one elbow.
"Christ!... live entertainment." He
chuckled to himself, his eyes following
Krone's graceful movements around the
room. With a rush of jealousey that took
me by surprise, I noticed a gleam of in-
terest in his gaze. A vague anger shiv-
ered in my gut. After spending the entire
night wooing Krone, I found it galling
that Jesse should suddenly awake and whisk
him away. He'd done it before... using
his dimpled grin and sleepy-eyed charm to
grab boys whom I had befriended and
brought home. For almost four years he'd
taken whatever he'd wanted — not arrogant-
ly, or in deliberate competition, but
simply, I suppose, because he was too lazy
(and too busy getting high) to venture
into the wilderness and fend for himself.
He waited in his cave for me to bring him
nourishment; food, liquor, cigarettes...
and boys. If he found a bottle of wine
appealing, he would guzzle it; if he found
a boy appealing, he would snatch him away
with equal appetite. Sometimes he was too
drunk to bother; sometimes we shared; and
sometimes I was left with nothing. To-
night, probably our last together, I could
see him once again stirring from his
torpor in order to snare an attractive
partner for one night's diversion. But I
shoved back my anger; I refused to sour
our friendship with hurt feelings and
foolish recriminations. Krone was not a
prize to be lusted after; he was not a
trophy to be awarded. He was a fifteen-
year-old boy who could choose freely to go
with one of us or neither of us. There
was no contest here to be won of lost, no
room for petty emotions to blacken and
tangle something that should be as simple
and pure and natural as drawing breath.
Tiring of his dance, Krone glided
slowly back to the couch and dropped down
beside me. He gave me a smiling glance,
then took three gulps of wine, leaving
only a shallow purplish pool at the bottom
of the bottle.
I nudged his shoulder. "You looked
good. "
"I love to dance. It makes me feel
great." He finished his wine in one swig.
"Shit, man, I'm sweating like crazy."
As if commanded, I quickly crossed the
room and opened a window. A weak puff of
air came in through the screen. "It's
really warm tonight."
"Too hot," Krone murmured, then let-
ting out a sigh he pulled the velour shirt
over his head. His tourso was thin and
white, childish, with nipples almost too
tiny and pale pink to be seen.
I ran my finger across his sweaty
chest. "You're right, you are hot."
He slumped lower in his seat, resting
against the arm of the couch. "Am I going
to sleep here tonight?"
"Whatever you want,"
"The couch is OK." His jaw stretched
in a wide, eye-squinting yawn. "I'm get-
ting kinda tired."
"Long day for all of us." I took a
gulp of wine and passed him the bottle,
•there's not much left, finish it up."
Jesse let loose a furious barrage of
coughing, grumbled an inaudible curse,
then climbed groaning to his feet. 'T^ell,
folks, it's been a goddamn blast, but I've
had enough for one night."
I sprang up from the couch as he pas-
sed. "Hey, Jesse, I'm leaving early to-
morrow, probably won't see you before
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"Yeah, I know." He slapped my shoul-
der and smiled. "Listen, take care,
Jake," and already he was at the stairs.
"I can't stand fuckin' maudlin goodbyes,
pardner, so take it easy."
Then he was gone.
I stood for a moment staring at the
dim, empty stairway. Jesse, I knew, had
deliberately gone to bed early, leaving me
Krone as a farewell token, one final gal-
lant gesture of friendship and affection.
But... his thoughtfulness had been in
vain. Returning my attention to Krone, I
found him sleeping serenely on the couch,
lips parted, head resting against his
shoulder. He had emptied the second wine
bottle and laid it neatly next to his own.
Nice boy. Surprisingly tidy.
I sat down beside him and gave his
knee a perfunctiory nudge. He moaned
softly, but the wine had numbed him beyond
revival. The night had reached its rather
farcical conclusion. I was left with
nothing but shattered hopes and an aching
erection. Almost defiantly, I unzipped
his trousers and pushed my hand inside the
open fly. His underpants were warm and
slightly moist; I pressed against the soft
penis within, squeezed it gently, massaged
it in slow circles. But nothing stirred
inside the underpants; no eager hard-on
greeted my caress; even his cock was too
tired to play.
Unwilling to disturb the boy any fur-
ther, I withdrew my hand and zipped up his
pants. My fingers smelled of sweat and
boy-piss, a fragrance both pungent and
sweet, as subtly piquant as spice and
attar. Still stiff as a rutting buck, I
decided to retire upstairs, where I could
masturbate in glum solitude. It occured
to me that I could stay on the couch and
use Krone's hand for the purpose, but that
seemed somehow too furtively depraved even
for my jaded tastes.
Trying to avoid the cliche* of sigh, I
leaned over and brushed the back of my
hand across the boy's cheek, pressed my
lips against his in a gently kiss, then
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Feedback
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Opinions expressed in the feedback column do
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Letters are presented in the spirit of a free
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To Feedback:
I agree totally with Lover Boy’ Joe!
Personally I have met a few young men
that knew where they were headed sex-
ually, knew how to handle it even though
some of them were only eleven or twelve
years old.
I lived with a girl that was fif-
teen, her brother that was going on
eleven at the time, we had a beautiful
relationship between the three of us for
four and a half years. Every one had
his or her say about what went on, and
there wasn't any hassle until a nosy
neighbor stuck her nose in our business,
and call the law, and I got busted.
There is more to love then sex. I
know young people have to feel love,
companionship out side of their home
life. I had two young brothers, thir-
teen and fourteen come to me because
they knew I would listen, advise them
concerning their problems large or
small. I even got along with their
mother.
— Gary
Dear NAMBLA:
I have just finished reading the
November 1984 NAMBLA BULLETIN with much
pride and interest.
As a longtime gay civil rights acti-
vist, I am putting the man/boy issue on
the top. of ray agenda for 1985* I have
already sent letters of support to indi-
viduals such as David Sonenschein ("How
to Have Sex with Kids") and Raymond
Latham, who is currently serving a jail
sentence for "associating" with minors.
These two cases are only two out of
hundreds, if not thousands of indi-
viduals who need our love and support!
As I recently wrote to the editor of
a Los Angeles gay newspaper; IT IS TIME
FOR THE GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY TO
SPEAK OUT FOR THE RIGHTS OF THE BOYS WHO
CHOOSE TO BE INVOLVED IN THIS TYPE OF
RELATIONSHIP AND AGINST LAW ENFORCEMENT
FOR SPENDING TAXPAYERS’ DOLLARS TO PRO-
SECUTE MEN WHO LOVE BOYS.
NAMBLA is to be commended for their
outreach and educational program.s You
and your readers have my full support!
I hope that we all live to see the
day when this senseless sexual oppres-
sion come to an end. Claim your right
to love who you please!
-^--''''iCndrew Ross Exler \
Civil Rights Activist \
I 6000 Sunset Blvd., I
I Suite 209
Los Angeles, CA 90028 /
Editorial Note: - — y'
Exler received nationwide attention
when he sued Disney land over the right
to dance at the "Happiest Place on
Earth" in the 1980 with his then boy-
friend. Recently, and Orange County
judge and jury ruled that Disney’s same-
sex dance ban violated Exler's civil
rights. Exler welcomes any and all
correspondence .
•
Dear NAHBLA,
Again, I. am overwhelmed with the
kinship I find in your publications.
I've just finished the Bullatin for
1980, Journal #6, and boys speak out on
Man/Boy Love.
While I have accepted the fact that
I am not gay in the true sense of the
word, I am Bi, and a boy lover. I have
learned over the years to be proud of my
ability to love boys and see in them a
beauty that most people miss. In this I
can be proud of being different.
I know that I can give in ways that
few adults can, I can be a true friend
and also a lover if the boy wishes. I
have came to feel that sex with a boy is
only the final path after a long and
rewarding relationship. As in a mar-
riage, sex only seals one to anothers by
expressing in a physical manner all of
the intense emotions two people have for
each other.
Sadly I look forward to a very hard
time for us, as well as our Gay brothers
and sisters. The overwhelming results
of the last elections should cause dan-
ger flags to fly everywhere. The Moral
Majority in a sense have been given the
ball to run with for the next four
years. We will be hounded from every
pulpit throughout this county, and pos-
sible with results similar to what has
taken place in Iran over the past few
years.
The sun will shine again, when the
back lash hits from the loss of freedom.
Hopefully I will live to that day.
Yours in B/L
Hughes, Texas
Dear NAMBLA:
Our son recently went away to col-
lege. My husband and I have been going
to nudist camps since before he was
born. ^
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ENTRAPMENT OF THE MONTH
putting us all in jails or loony bins. The
entrapment column was begun in the hope of
keeping a few of the unwary from such
fates. It is ny personal belief that
total freedom for boy or man will not come
until the injustices done to us raise us
to anger and until the searing heat of
that anger is channeled into constructive
actions.
Updates
Last month, we reported on the experi-
ences of a correspondent v^o had had mail
seized by U.S. Customs. The individual has
advised us that, as a matter of principle,
he decided to retrieve his property
despite the inconvenience and expense.
When he did show up to receive his mail,
he experienced no further difficulty. We
applaud his determination.
^ On"a more ominous note, we have received
copies of more correspondences from Eugene
Weiner (see Bulletin #5/9 & #5/10). The
letters were sent by him to a jailed
individual. The letters are especially
despicable in that they not only attempt
to put the recipient in an incriminating
position but also pump him for information
1 about other imprisoned individuals.
I Please be advised that such
correspondences are from a postal
inspector, that Weiner is surely an alias, /
that aliases are easily changed, and that/
the modus ope rand i rather than al
particular name identify the work of a\
postal inspector . J
Dear Peter,
Please pardon ny delay in responding. In
the past I have been somev^t resistant to
handling NAMBIA newsletter. Eventhou^ I
support most of the educational efforts I
perceive your organization is doing, I am
a very non-cont rovers ial sort of person
and have tried very hard for the store to
also project that sort of image. Two
things have changed cy mind about carrying
the newsletter:
1 ) The Houston referendum, which has me
more determined than ever before that we
not be divided into young/ old, black/vrfiite,
male/ female , r i ch/poor , etc . , e t c . , etc .
That we must instead be supportive of one
another whether or not we are in complete
agreement (THEY are not going to like us
anyway, whether we are good fairies or bad
fairies.)
2) Last year I was under a two-week
"informal" investigation by the Houston
Police Department because I had talked on
the telephone with a 13-year-old troubled
gay youth about his homosexual inclina-
tions — calls initiated by him. Of course
the investi^tion revealed nothing since
there was nothing to reveal, but I came to
realize that as long as officialdom’s
archaic attitudes about interactions
between adults and youth prevail, we all
are in danger. So, please send us five
copies of each issue of the newsletter on
consignment.
Cordially,
Charles Gillis
by Peter Melzer
There is not much to report on this
month. This column depends on contribu-
tions from readers. If suspicious solici-
tations have dropped off, that is certain-
ly good news. If readers are not forward-
ing vital information, we can only blame
ourselves when tragedy hits.
At this point it may be useful to clear
up a potential misunderstanding. Our
efforts at exposing government sponsored
entrapments should not be interpreted to
mean that there are any "safe” sources of
"child pornography". This column was begun
when it became clear that the only "sex
clubs" and offerings of porno^aphy were
run from government post office boxes.
There may be individuals here and there
trading privately in proscribed materieils.
Dealing with such individuals is also very
dangerous. When they get arrested, they
invariably drag in others in what the
media, with great relish, call sex and
pornography rings.
Personal Philosoi^
% writing this column should also not
be misinterpreted as an unconditional
approval of pornography. Fantasy is part
of the human condition. Reality is not
always pleasant, and occasional flights
into daydreams, sexual or otherwise, is
certainly reasonable. This is especially
so for men and boys who are considered
criminal for loving each other. Never-
theless , pornography should not be
confused with man/boy love. An over-
dependance on one-dimensional images can
only deter from the desirability of a full
relationship between a man and a boy.
Our society, however, is hellbent on
The following letter was sent to TIAI^LA
from the owner of the Wilde 'N* Stein book
store of Houston Texas after we solicited
the store to carry the NAMBLA Bulletin.
Readers who have friends in the Houston
area who may wish to purchase the Bulletin
or merely browse can direct them to Wilde
& Stein Books at 802 Westheimer. □
Feedback
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My husband’s practice takes up most
of his time. But he still devotes time
to researching sexual behavior. Most of
his patients suffer from some form, or
degree, of sexual frustration. I’ve
read many of the "Alternate Lifestyle"
publications and I must admit that you
are a very radical group. You are
trying to break down one of society's
strongest sexual fears! Nudism, in its
own way, is also trying to do away with
the things that cause sexual fears.
The most basic problem is the fact
that most parents bring up their child-
ren to feel guilty about nudity. And
that is a major reason why they feel
guilty about sex as adults. Most people
never adjust to nudity and so they only
have problems adjusting to sex once they
are adults,
I have watched children grow up in
the nudist camps for more than 20 years.
Nudist camps are not sex camps, but
these children do grow up to be better
adjusted sexually. Most nudists don't
get all bent out of shape when the meet
Bisexuals, Homosexuals, or Lesbians.
Nudist camps are places for open
nudity. If they were places for open
sex, families would no longer be allowed
in them. Nudist have very strict rules
about open sex because if they didn't
the children would lose a very health
upbringing.
As it is, there are fewer families
in nudiest camps today than there were
20 years ago. As that is a very serious
social loss in terras of better sexual
health. Some brave nudists started a
magazine recently, as a way to sell the
idea of nudism to more families. But
they have had a serious setback and the
really need help.
I have enclosed some of the notices
from the "Families-Natural" magazine. I
really hope that you will publish them
and help them in their appear for sup-
port.
Sincerely,
Mrs. J.N.
#
Dear NAMBLA:
My membership has been very profit-
able for me. I have been able to learn
how others feel toward ray favorite sub-
ject, BOYS. I’ve found that I have a
lot in common with some, and nothing in
common with others. Which to me is the
way it should be. Happily, the common
feeling seems to be, love and care, and
not the rape and kill the press would
have the world to believe.
I feel that the largest body of
prospective membership is missed when we
focus on the gay community. I believe
that the majority of the Boy Lovers are
in the middle class, straight house
holds, who go through life believing
that they are afflicted with a curse, no
one feels as he does, and that NAMBLA,
if he has heard of it, is a group of
kidnappers, who steal young boys and
keep them hidden away as sex slaves,
until they are too old, and then they
dispose of them.
I don't know how this can be undone,
but I do believe that it is of prime
importance to the success of NAMBLA.
One positive article in the press could
generate the drive necessary to more
than meet the membership goal.
We establish defense funds for mem-
bers who have been acused of various
crimes, why not a fund to support the
search for a missing kid, there by put-
ting ourselves into a public position of
proving that we truly care about kids,
and not just personal gratification.
Of course, any public statement
would probably bring the wrath of the
Jerry Falwell's down upon us, who would
try to prove to the world we are sick-
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From ’’The Prophet"
And a wonun who held a babe against her
Lbnsom said. Speak to us of Children.
And he said:
Your children arc not your children.
They arc the sons and daughters of Life’s long-
ing for itself.
They come through you but not from you.
And though they arc with you yet they belong
not to you.
You may give them your love but not your
thought.s.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of to-morrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
Yi>u may strive to be like them, but seek not
to make them like you.
For life gi>cs not backward nor tarries with
yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as
living arrows arc sent forth.
Kahlil Gibran.
Feedback
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ies, but even through he can get the
press coverage, everyone does not be-
lieve that he says. Can you believe the
positive aspect of Just one kid being
found by the efforts of NAMBLA.
I recommend that a special fund be
established, to be used in such a way to
benefit the Association and Boys who are
in trouble. Set aside a special organ-
ization with memberships of say $60.00 a
year ($5 a month). Establish a national
800 number for youth, gay or straight,
who have been kidnapped, or who are in a
relationship that they can't explain to
Mom and Pop. If only half of our pre-
sent membership responded, there would
be $24f000 a year for nothing but pos-
itive press, and who can place the value
of one positive press article. But, the
damage of one article, linking NAMBLA to
a kidnapping, child prostitution ring,
or rape, will take years to over come.
It took Gay Pride to cause the
straights to take another look at the
Gay comraunity, and realize that Gays are
humans too. We need an issue that will
also tell the world we are proud, we
care, we're human,
I've been though a lot because of my
feelings and relationships with boys,
drinking to attempted suicide in '67,
thankfully that failed. I haven't been
Jailed yeti although I have been tried
and convicted (by the military) for
assault of a boy under the age of 16 (I
touched him). I have come through all
of this and I find I’m proud of what I
am. My love for boys is something spec-
ial, an ability everyone doesn’t have.
Dear NAMBLA,
I know that I acted frustrated and
dissatisfied a few times at the confer^
ence. That was essentially because I AM
DAM ANGRY!! I need to acknowledge,
through, that very little of my anger
comes from my frustrations with NAMBLA,
I'm very upset with the lies that our
civilizations is based upon and I'm
upset with myself for going along with
them. In many, many situations, I find
that people are unwilling to fulfill the
responsibilities of the Jobs for which
they're paid; if I let my anger about
this show, they usually become defensive
and even more irresponsible. But at the
conference, rather than returning ray
anger with more anger of your own, you
apparently were able to see and share my
frustration, and you met ray anger with
love and compassion. Thank you!
One source of my anger is my rela-
tionship with the est organization, with
which I was involved for several years.
It is supposed to foster "enlighten-
ment," and yet I have experienced seve-
ral instances where staff members im-
posed their unenlightened attitudes of
both homosexuality and intergenerational
sex upon their est Jobs and the people
they dealt with there, I would appre-
ciate hearing from any NAMBLA members,
and/or gay people, who have taken the
est Training and are willing to support
I’m very excited about being a mem-
ber of NAMBLA. A phrase that I learned
in the Gay Liberation movement in the
early 1970' s comes to mind; "An army of
lovers cannot be beat." But "lovers"
means something much more personal to me
in NAMBLA!
At the conference, Peter Melzer
proposed that we increase NAMBLA member-
ship (currently under 400) to 1,000
within a year and to 10,000 within 5
years. (l seldom fell as though there
even exist that many people in North
America who are willing to advocate love
between men and boys - even without sex!
What do you think?) "An army of
lovers." Let's do it! —
am anxious to start a NAMBLA chapA
Ger in Portland. I would like to hearl
from anyone in the Pacific Northwest who \
is interested.
Again, I express ray deep apprecia-
tion to each person who contributed to
the success of the conference - and that
includes those who worked hard to pro-
duce it, those who participated, and
those who did not attend, because every-
one associated with NAMBLA helped make
it possible. I truly love each of you.
See you at the next conference -
Veteran's Day, 1985 - New York City!
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BOYS IN THE MEDIA
by Richard Boyer
COMING OF AGE IN SOHO has been
reviewed previously, but after I saw it, I
checked my tape of "Oh, Boy, Babies!", a
TV special about a class at a boys school
learning to care for babies. Sure enough
there was Ward Saxton (Puer — the
younger boy — In the play) playing Ward,
the kid with the calculator. He had no
accent — the whole German accent in the
play is a carefully prepared put-on.
Bravo! Saxton, also a dancer, lives in
Monmouth, New Jersey, and commutes to
New York City for the play by bus when
he Isn't driven. He goes to Christian
Bros. Academy, with a full load of
homework, and thinks most kids his own
age consider him a little weird. He looks
11, isn't good in sports, and knows he
excels at acting.
NOTES: A Long Island (NY) schpol
production of "Oliver" was a link in
bringing an 11 year old boy back to his
mom after his dad abducted him 9 years
before. He was allowed to phone her and
told her he was somewhere in Long Island,
and mentioned his role In the play, from
which he was traced... Watch for an
upcoming movie, "The Aviator",
Christopher (Superman) Reeve as a
pioneer pilot whose relationship with a
stowaway boy reawakens his will to live
after a crash. Also "Martin's Day",
Richard Harris and Justin Henry in an
interesting relationship, already out in
some cities... A recent episode of "Mr.
Belvidere" dealt with the boy (Brice
Beckham, about 10) who took up ballet
instead of fottball. Key scene was where
his dad, originally against it, came around
at a recital, reacting to some infuriating
derogatory comments by the man sitting
next to him.
LATE NIGHT BOY GEM: "Treasure Island"
( 1934) -- a classic interpretation of the
story starring Jackie Cooper, with Wallace
Berry as Long John Silver. Beneath the
well known story line lies the poignant
story of innocence lost, of friendship
betrayed, and the tru meaning of promise
and trust. There is so much to rediscover
on each viewing. Through the years It has
not lost its rich detail, nor its charm and
excitement. Cooper is magnificent.
MORE NOTES: NBC News is working on a
program for kids "whose viewing habits
have sprung from a diet of cartoons," The
show, also expected to appeal to adults,
would be mostly interviews of kids... On
the last day of shooting of "I Want to Co
Home", an ABC Afterschool Special, Seth
Green, 11, who'd just filmed a scene in
which he gets beaten up, didn't have time
to remove hls make-up as he and his mom
ran to catch a train from New York home
to Philly. He got strange looks from other
passengers... Nolan Thomas' new video,
"Yo Little Brother" features several kids
under 10 impresonating rock superstars:
Joel Callendrillo as Billy Idol, Daniel
Wooten (see Oct. '84 column), etc... Ken
Danby has designed a series of collectors'
plates, "Reflections of Youth." The first
one, "The Swimmers", a boy squatting on
an idyllic dock with hls dog. Is far more
appealing than the many other plates on
the market portraying kids. The plate is
$69 but you can at least get the leaflet,
by contacting Anna-Perenna Inc, 32 Relyea
Place, New Rochelle, NY 10801... A
friend, seeing "Witness" with me (which
starred Lukas Haas), felt the adult love
scenes were so well done, it almost made
him wish he were temporarily straight.
NOSTALGIA: Continuing with Boy Actors
Film Society newsletter, this the February
1978 issue. Cover boy was Martin Lartique
from "War of the Buttons", a movie about
a conflict between two boys' groups, with
buttons the prize of war, and a lot of
stripping... David Stambaugh, then 14,
returned from his last Bad News Bears film
(as Toby Whitewood) to the soap opera
"Love of Life" where he had been playing
Hank Latimer since he was 7. His voice is
getting deeper... Matthew Laborteaux, just
11, wore short cut shorts In a
(forgettable) TV movie about tarantulas...
"Lovely" Scott Baio has a fan club... Cary
Guffey, 4, was in "Close Encounters"
Time Magazine called Sean Marshall (as
Orphan Pete in "Pete's Dragon") "so
appealing that you want to strangle
him"... Unfortunately, this was the issue
with a drawing of Johnnie Whitaker which
led to the beginning of the end of this
publication more than a year later.
INTRODUCTION TO PART TWO: The
materia) above was written to run in the
April issue. Unfortunately the Collective
changed the deadline for columns, and
failed to inform your erstwhile media
columnist. What follows is really the May
column.
BACKSTAGE: This weekly New York based
media newspaper's latest kids issue (dated
April 5) had a theme, "Kid Actors Tell it
Like it is", inspired by the interest
sparked by Dick Moore's book, "Twinkle,
Twinkle, Little Star." Kids are no longer
the primary, or sole, source of family
income, but might still perceive themselves
as "pieces of meat." To put that image to
rest, two happy young boy stars were
interviewed. One, Timmy Ceissler, 7i, who
was in "Sister Mary Ignatius...", goes to
a parochial school In Tarrytown
(Westchester County), New York, Is on a
diet, is getting into sports, and likes the
business so much. Timmy says business
obligations have never stopped him from
doing something else that might be more
fun. SetK Kibel, IO5, loads of credits, is
from Yorktown (also jn Westchester
County), NY, and hls dad is a
psychiatrist. Seth is a non-athlete, but
likes science fiction and traveling Asked if
he'd recommend the show business life for
a kid his age, he said, "If he'd want to,
yeah... If you don't do well, it's a lousy
life. If you do well, it's great."
LATE NIGHT BvOY GEM: "My Uncle
Antoine," (1971, Canadian), set in a 1940's
Quebec mining town. The story centers on
the reactions of a boy, about 13, who lives
with his aunt and uncle, to happenings
over 3 days one December. The boy looks
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Peoples of the World
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BOYS IN THE MEDIA
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like (and Is) an altar boy, but gets into
all kinds of mischief, and discoveries,
including sexual fantasies with a woman.
There are many facial closeups which show
his suppressed emotions -- you can well
imagine and ponder what he was thinking.
This helps make it a memorable movie.
TRUFFAUT: Jean-Pierre Leaud (the
appealing, unloved Antoine Doinel in "The
^tOO Blows" and sequels) , now 40, came to
the United States for a ceremony on the
re-release of the late Francois Truffaut's
classic. Never married, Leaud's essence is
the cinema. Like Truffaut, Leaud had a
troubled childhood, expelled from several
boarding schools. Leaud feels he was
chosen for the role in Blows because of his
"aggressive shyness" and "intense desire."
Jean>Pierre UAud and| left, a$ Antoine Doinel in
“The 400 Blows.”
He found Truffaut a relaxed and
sympathetic director who treated children
like human beings. NOSTALGIA: The next
issue I have of the Boy Actors Film
Society newsletter is dated June 1978. Boy
model Nell Bodack, 11 ,and another boy,
appear with Brooke Shields, 12, in "The
Brooke Book." The book version of
"Damien - the Omen* - Part 2" was
recommended. Philip McKeon, 13, appeared
in white shorts in Tenn Spec magazine. A
new movie "1900" had an interesting scene
in a hayloft. The forgettable baseball film,
"Here Come the Tigers", was released.
Bad news Bear Chris Barnes made a TV
pilot in which he falls for a taller girl.
POSTSCRIPT: Mention of Philip McKeon
recalls a short but excellent sequence on
the last episode of "Alice" in March. About
8 scenes, maybe one second long each, of
Tommy (McKeon) coming into the diner and
saying hi to Mom or Mel were strung
together, starting with age 11 (when the
show started) to age 18 (now). He ages
Instantaneously. □
Lately, alas, I knew a gentle boy.
Whose features all were cast In Virtue’s mould,
As one she had designed for Beauty’s toy.
But after manned him for her own stronghold.
On every side he open was as day,
That you might see no lack of strength within.
For walls and ports do only serve alway
For a pretence to feebleness and sin.
Say not that Caesar was victorious.
With toil and strife who stormed the House of Fame,
In other sense this youth was glorious,
Himself a kingdom wheresoe’er he came.
No strength went out to get him victory.
When all was income of its own accord i
For where he went none other was to see.
But all were i>arcel of their noble lord.
He forayed like the subtile haze of summer,
That stilly shows fresh landscapes to our eyes.
And revolutions works without a murmur.
Or rustling of a leaf beneath the skies.
So was 1 taken unawares by this,
I quite forgot ray homage to confess f
Yet now am forced to know, though hard it is,
I might have loved him had I loved him less.
Each moment as we nearer drew to each,
A stem respect withheld us further yet.
So that we seemed beyond each other’s reach.
And less acquainted than when first we met.
We two were one while we did sympathize,
So could we not the simplest bargain drive*
And what avails it now that we are wise.
If absence doth this doubleness contrive?
Eternity may not the chance repeat.
But I must tread my single way alone,
In sad remembrance that we once did meet.
And know that bliss irrevocably gone.
The spheres henceforth my elegy shall sing.
For elegy has other subject none*
Each strain of music in my ears shall ring
Knell of departure from that other one.
Make haste and celebrate my tragedy*
With fitting strain resound ye woods and fields*
Sorrow is dearer in such case to me
Than all the joys other occasion yields.
Is’t then too late the damage to repair?
Distance, forsooth, from my weak grasp hath reft
The empty husk, suid clutched the useless tare.
But in my hands the wheat and kernel left.
If I but love that virtue which he is,
Though it be scented in the morning air.
Still shall we be truest acquaintances.
Nor mortals know a sympathy more rare.
- Henry David Thoreau
TRUTH
Prom Time to the Los Angeles Times
most of what I read about pedophiles and
pedophilia is negative. Our small cir-
culation newsletters and esoteric books,
which circulate among the initiates, do
not provide the same Impact as the general
publications. Books like the puerile We
Have A Secret by Jill Haddad and Lloyd
Martin, full of assumptions, innuendo,
unsupported research, and blatant lies —
all interspersed with a modicum of truth-
add to our negative public image. No
wonder then social attitudes are against
us, laws condemn us.
For too long we have avoided publi-
cizing our case to the general public. We
either keep to ourselves like hermits, or
closet ourselves together with a chosen
few. It is time we opened up. Scary?
Damn right it is. I know the fear of
exposure in this phobic society. I under-
stand the trauma. But we can present our
case more effectively and still maintain
anonymity. I’m not asking for blood
sacrifice.
We can utilize all forms of the media
to better advantage in proselyting our
case. There is research to be done; there
are articles to be written (use a
pseudonym). Rejections? Yes, we’ll be
rejected. I have personally collected my
share of rejection slips. Every serious
writer does, but we struggle through.
You have no talent for writing? All
right. Even someone with no professional
ability as a writer can submit a letter to
the editor (use an alias, a post office
box number). There are radio talk shows
where you may call in, raise the issue and
present our cause. In some cases it may
be possible to appear with "black face" on
television.
You may purchase books like Paedo-
philia, The Radical Case by Tom 0* Carrol
and donate them to libraries, civic
groups, professional organizations, law-
yers, judges, and others who need to be
enlightened. You can write to your local,
state, and federal representatives seeking
changes in the laws which punish love
between people simply on an age differen-
tial.
We need all of these services, and
more. We need to get the truth out to the
public. Then, I believe, we will begin to
change attitudes, eventually laws, and
begin to swell our ranks with those who
are now only searching for support such as
we may provide. □
QUID NUMC(iatin for "what now?") is In English
a person who is inquisitive about the latest
news or gos3ip; a busybody. That would
describe both myself and what I intend my
column to be about, it wilf cover various
newsworthy but not feature- worthy events
each month. To paraphrase another famous
newspaper, "All the news that fits, we'tl
print".
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Prosecutors said that police use of
minors as decoys in sex investigation was
not Illegal. Ray Larsen, Fayette County
(Ky.) Commonwealth's Attorney, said that
the police had not broken any laws when
they used two boys, one a 14 year old who
sucked off a suspect while police listened
via a hidden microphone.
Larson investigated the matter as a
result of the Sept. 1984 trial of a
Lexington lawyer later convicted of sodomy
and unlawful transactions with minors. An
opinion by the Attorney General said that
the use of the youths "places such
children in the way of harm, and ... could
constitute abuse..." (LI Connection, 3/22
to 4/5/85). A rather humorous rumor has
reached me concerning the vice cops in a
large city in a state just south of
Kentucky. Three cops were involved with
boys sexually. Two had enough dirt on
their superiors to escape trial. They
started a car wash together. An elderly
aunt later remarked they were doing well
as they happened to know a number of
teenagers to work rather cheaply.
The moral is that if you break the law,
it helps to be a cop.
QUID NUNC
carefully selected and trained," He
believes "child abuse is a crime second
only to murder." He works part-time as a
security guard at a liquor store.
(Washington Post, 11/8/84)
by Robert Rhodes
to act despite Its knowledge of the priest's
sexual preference. (NY Daily News,
2/24/84).
A child advocate with the York (Pa.)
Child Care Center was arrested February
18 on charges that he brought two
teenaged boys to the Hershey Hotel in
Philadelphia for sex. Police had been aware
of Regis Ranck's activities since the
summer of 1984 and had asked hotels In
the city to notify them if Ranck checked
in. He Is charged with indecent assault,
corrupting the morals of a minor, and
drug violation (the police found some pot
on him). (PGN, 3/7/85)
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A 67 year old choirmaster, John
:>chal!enberger, of Connellsville, Pa. was
arrested at JFK Airport on his way to
Europe for a tour with his choir. He is
charged with corruption of a minor,
indecent assault, and indecent exposure
for having had sex with an 11 year old
European exchange student staying with a
family in Union, Pa, (NY Daily News,
4/3/85)
Two Minneapolis poITcernen have been
assigned for to determine if there are
enough pedophile crimes in Minneapolis to
warrant forming a child exploitation unit
(sic). Virtually no arrests have been made
for child-adult sex but the department
wants to know If such criminal activity
exists.
Sgt. Jim Martin, one of the assigned
officers, said, "We don't know for sure if
it's happening." Martin recently returned
from working with the LAPD Sexually
Exploited Children's unit. He learned there
that pedophiles are discreet when
committing crimes, and usually are
involved in youth organizations. Victims
rarely come forward because of the loyalty
generated between the pedophile and the
youth. (Minneapolis Star and T ribune,
4/17/85) ,
The Bellevue (Wa.) police have formed
a special unit to deal with the problem of
sexually abused children. They admit they
have no Idea of the extent of the problem
but say national statistics shout one of
four girls and one of nine boys are
sexually abused. Narcotics agents will
work undercover to track known local
pedophiles. The goal of this unit is to deal
with sexual abuse before It happens rather
than after it occurs. (Seattle Times)
The third edition of National Attorney's
Directory for Lesbian and Cay Rights,
published by CLAD. Attorneys sympathetic
to the needs of gays and lesbians are
listed state by state. It can be ordered
from CLAD by check for $12 (which
includes postage) from CLAD, PO Box 218,
Boston, Ma. 02112.
On October 3, 1984, the organist and
director of St. Killian's (Farmingdale, Long
Island, NY) choir pleased guilty to
attempted (sic) sodomy, confessing to sex
with a 13 year old altar boy. He was
sentenced to 3 years probation and 200
hours of community service. In a second
Incident, parents of a 14 year old sued the
parish because a teacher approached a
student for sex. The teacher resigned but
was not prosecuted. (PGN, 4/4/85)
•
The parents of four boys sued the
archdiocese of Los Angeles and Rev.
Patrick Roemer, a priest on probation for
child molesting, claiming the church failed
The Board of Elders of the Universal
Fellowship of Metropolitan Community
Church has released a pastoral directive
stating, "Sexual activity between adults
and children can never be condoned ...
under circumstances ... such activity is
always Inherently coercive even when it
appears on the surface to be voluntary
and a product of mutual consent." (TWN,
3/6/85)
I had two thoughts on this. If the rumor
is correct, one or two of the Board of
Elders may have a bit of a problem
conforming their own conduct to this
directive. Further, the National Council of
Churches is still not going to let MCC in.
■< I •
-'"''John G. Fasick, a Prince George's
County (Md.) police detective, got
honorable mention in the annual Parade
Magazine survey. He got the award by
stalking and finally arresting Ray Latham
for man/boy sex. Fasick arranged for
postal inspectors to check Latham's mail.
Fasick said, "The problem (in investigating
the case) was, he had those children
Cay and lesbian activists from around
the world will gather in Toronto this
summer for the 7th annual IGA
(International Cay Association) conference.
For six days, June 30 to July 7, delegates
and observers will attend workshops. A
two day gay history conference will be
held during this period. The conference
fee is $40 for IGA delegates and $25 for
observers. Students, unemployed, and
senior citizens will be charged only $15.
Additional information may be obtained
from the IGA Conference Committee, T05
Carlton St, 4th floor, Toronto, Canada
MSB 1M2
On April 19, the Cay Switchboard of
Philadelphia hosted the first of a weekly
series of Cay Disco for 15-17 year olds at
the DCA, 1219 St. James St., 8-11 PM.
Admission is $5. Those over 18 were
excluded because they are "legally adults".
Jerry Kidder of the Switchboard said
\ possible "harassment" from parents was
I feared if under 15's were admitted. □
CHAPTER REPORT
New York's Horatio Alger Chapter met at
Our Studios in Manhattan April 16.
Jim Cooper made an excellent
presentation on "the war against ‘child
molesters'". Cooper, who fought a
tremendous legal battle following his
arrest, fought back with a countersuit
against authorities who viciously violated
the rights of young people and others
Involved in the case. Cooper explained
some of the procedures in arrest and trial,
explained certain decisions which must be
made, and distributed a booklet to educate
citizens about their rights.
A few of the key ideas follow. One
should be aware of one's rights, and when
one's rights are waived. Example: One
need not talk to or Jet in authorities
unless they have a warrant. One should
have made contact with an attorney before
any trouble happens. Anyone, even a
parent, can be arrested if a complaint is
made. Boy love, labelled child abuse, is a
hot topic now. Address books are one
thing they're searching for. Arrests are
usually made Fridays at the place of
employments for as many counts as
possible. One will have to decide about
plea bargaining, about whether to testify
on one's own behalf, and about judge or
Jury trial. The lawyer's interest is
professional, the arrestee Is the one who
should be really concerned about his
future and who should review the lawyer's
work, keep track of deadlines, help with
legal research, and pound the pavement to
take care of other things.
In another area, the Chapter was
refused meeting space by the Board of the
Cay and Lesbian Community Center (similar
to San Francisco's Pride Center). Letters
are being written to elicit support. □
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IQ AND CONSENT
Ex-Klnaey researcher A publisher of Row to Save Sex With Kids
FACES TEN-YEAR SENTENCE
by Daniel Tsang
SEX researcher and small press
publisher David Sonenschein may
spend the next ten years of his
life in jail unless he wins an appeal
against his recent Austin, Texas
conviction.
The 44-year«old political activist
was convicted on April 17 of il-
legally photocopying one photograph
from a "pornographic” magazine de-^
picting children. A Travis. County
jury unanimously found him guilty of
a third-degree felony for violating
a 1979 state law barring the "sexual
performance of a child.” The jury,
also recommended the maximum sen-
tence— 10 years in jail and a, S5,000
fine. Formal sentencing by District
Judge Jon Wisser is scheduled for
April 29.
Last year Sonenschein published
the political pamphlet with thie,
deliberately provocative title.
Bow to Have Sex with Kids,- Surpris-
ingly, the pamphlet was not brought
up in court, although half of the
jury pool had known about it. Sonen-
schein also wrote and published Some
Bomosexual Men (1983) .
At the three-day trial he was
represented by attorney Bill Allison,
an adjunct lecturer at the Univer-
sity of Texas Law School assigned
to his case by the American Civil
Liberties Union, Allison surprised
the prosecution by not presenting
any defense, although Sonenschein's
74-year-old father testified as a
character witness for his son.
Allison later explained that the
ACLU took on the case because of the
threat to the First Amendment,
He maintained that Sonenschein,
who has been engaged in a long-term
study of pedophilia, has the right
to research the topic, including the
right to photocopy research material.
But Allison did not present any
defense because he did not want to
expose Sonenschein to cross-
examination by the prosecution and
because he fully expects to win on
appeal. Allison claims that the
prosecution made numerous legal
errors.
A "major error”, according to
Allison, was the flying' in of special
agent Kenneth V. banning from the
FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia
to testify for the prosecution.
Allison was especially harsh on the
FBI agent and called his testimony
“totally irrelevant in a court of
law.” It was something more appro-
priately delivered at a Senate
hearing, Allison said.
According to Allison, banning
spoke about how, since child por-
nography was difficult to obtain,
pedophiles often resorted to photo-
copying the material to capture the
images of the children depicted,
banning testified that “a child in
the photograph lives forever.”
banning in fact has made a career
of touring the U.S. and Canada with
his slide show on child pornography.
[Mixed in with the sexually explicit
.slides in one of the cover of The
Age Taboo, a non-illustrated book
edited by the present writer and
dealing with the issues of man/boy
love. ]
Commenting on the slide show,
Allison suggested that under Texas
law "it's not clear that Mr. banning
isn't committing a crime. Maybe
someone should arrest him.”
During a court recess, television
.crews were allowed to film photo-
copies of the covers of sexually
explicit magazines in Lanning's
exhibit. No journalists were
arrested.
Allison maintained that the proce-
Dayid Sonenschein faces second trial for
publication of How to Bave Sex with Kids,
cution did not present "enough evi-
dence to sustain a conviction",
asserting that his client's “mere
act of copying” a pornographic pho-
tograph did not constitute a crime.
The prosecution failed to prove that
Sonenschein "knew the character and
intent of the photograph”. Allison
suggested that those were necessary
elements of the crime.
Two recently convicted pedophiles,
Robert Woodruff, 44, of Houston and
William Rust Norris, 31, of Austin,
also testified for the prosecution.
They appeared dressed in inmate
garb. Former participants in Sonen-
schein's research study, both had
received reduced sentences for
testifying against him.
By not providing a defense, Alli-
son conceded, conviction was vir-
tually guaranteed. But he defended
his legal strategy, arguing the
judge permitted many "reversible
errors”.
Allison suggested that it would
take “20 years” before the U.S.
Supreme Court would reverse its own
Fevber decision, which banned sexu-
ally explicit depictions of minors,
regardless of whether or not they
are obscene. In the meantime, Alli-
son warned, gay archives are espe-
cially in danger, since many of them
contain sexually explicit material.
The University of Texas Law School
Library has a collection of pornog-
raphy — "litigated literature” —
used in court cases, Allison expects
to donate to the library some of the
exhibits (photocopies of five maga-
zines) used in Sonenschein's case.
Asked if lawyers who use and photo-
copy such material in the library
would be arrested, Allison laughed
and said that it would be unlikely
because of their academic and insti-
tutional affiliation. Isolated and
unaffiliated collectors^ however,
remain vulnerable.
For publishing the pamphlet, Sonen-
schein still faces a misdemeanor
charge of promoting obscenity.
In that case he is represented by
another ACLU attorney, Hugh Lowe,
who argued in court last November
that the political pamphlet was
hardly obscene. “It is simply a
matter of words^*’ Lowe asserted. No
trial date has been set in the mis-
demeanor case while the defense
awaits a response to its motion to
have the case dismissed.
Reached at his Austin residence,
Sonenschein, who had expected the
verdict, vowed to continue his
research, despite receiving a tele-
phoned death threat.
Allison , expects Sonenschein to
remain free, on bail during the
appeals process, which is expected
to last at least a year.
But two days after the verdict,
Sonenschein met with Linda Phillips,
a probation officer assigned by the
court to assess whether Sonenschein
was “a danger to the community”.
According to Sonenschein, Phillips
admitted not knowing that homo-
sexuals exist until she took a human
sexuality course at the age of 27.
Because of his interrogation by
Phillips, who wanted him to confess
to being a pedophile, Sonenschein is
now fearful that his bail will be
revoked.
The former researcher for both the
Kinsey Institute and the 1970 Presi-
dent's Commission on Pornography
confirmed, however, that his lawyers
are optimistic about his appeal. In
the meantime, he needs to come up
with $3,000 to pay for transcripts
of the trial.
Sonenschein has been unemployable
since he was fired last July from a
clerical position in the Austin pub-
lic school system. His dismissal
came after a local television re-
porter, who had purchased some pam-
phlets from him, filed a complaint
with the authorities.
The reporter, Bruce Gordon of
KTBC-TV, had been tipped off about
Sonenschein by a colleague at a
Philadelphia TV station after a
controversy involving the sale of 10
copies of Sonenschein's pamphlet at
Giovanni's Room. The gay and feminist
bookstore was forced last June by
public pressure and threats of vio-
lence to stop carrying the pamphlet.
Since being fired, Sonenschein
has devoted much of his time, in
Austin's libraries, to researching
the taboo against pedophilia. Late
last year his essay on children, sex,
and the media was published in
Forbidden Fruits: Taboos and Tabooism
in Culture (Ray B. Browne, editor.
Bowling Green Press).
Sonenschein, trained as an anthro-
pologist, noted in the essay that
"pedophiles (and pedophiles -as -
pornographers) have replaced the
homosexual as the culture's most
insidious corrupter of youth." Iron-
ically, among the research material
that Austin police seized late last
September from Sonenschein's resi-
dence were the orginal draft and
master copy of this paper.
Preliminary findings of his ethno-
graphic study of pedophilia indicate
continued on page 8
Page 2
IQ AND CONSENT
Gay journalist-activist John Zeh
. is appealing his sentence for
“sexual battery” against a 16-
year-old neighbor who, Judge Donald
Schott ruled, had too low an IQ to
consent to sex.
The Lesbian/Gay Academic Union
(LGAU) has stepped up its funding
efforts to pay unexpected trial
costs and appeal fees.
On April 24 Judge Schott sen-
tenced Zeh to two years in an Ohio
state penitentiary.
Zeh was found innocent of “com-
pelling prostitution” of two 15-
year-old brothers of friends. The
youths had lied to police about
sex for gifts, then changed their
stories on the stand and contra-
dicted each other. One admitted he
wore a 'Boy George' T-shirt to court
because he identifies with the
singer's sexuality.
Four counts of “sexual battery” by
Zeh against the two were officially
dropped at trial by the prosecutor
because their IQs exceed 70.
The 16-year-old neighbor, David,
was found by the prosecution to
have an IQ of 45 — that of an 8 year
old. According to school and county
officials, he is mildly retarded.
One basis for appeal will be Judge
Schott's refusal to permit David to
be tested independently. Two defense
witnesses, a psychologist, and a
psychiatrist, who all observed David
on the stand and outside the court-
room, testified that he exhibits
social skills appropriate for his
age, is not substantially impaired,
and can therefore “appraise and
control” his sexual behavior, as the
law requires.
Defense attorney Allen Brown even
got two prosecution witnesses to say
that David possesses some social
skills, although he was not formally
tested for social adaptability.
Dr. Paul Larson, a Dayton psychol-
ogist, noted that as early as 1977
the American Association on Mental
Deficiency acknowledged a “trend
toward situational capacity” that
recognizes a retarded person's capac-
ity to consent to some acts but not
to others. Larson said that volun-
tariness, an element of consent, was
present in this case because there
was no fraud, force, deceit, or
duress. David visited Zeh voluntar-
ily, without solicitation.
Assistant Hamiliton County Prose-
cutor Claude Crowe referred to “child
victims” in his opening statement.
Defense attorney Brown objected when
Crowe asked Dr. Larson whether he
approves of sex between adults and
children. The question and answer
(“No”) was ordered stricken.
Prosecution witnesses acknowledged
that David has a conscience and can
act on it, that he was involved in
“life planning”, and that he had had
continued on page *1
Feedback
Unless permission is specifically, given to
do otherwise, names of contributors to this
column will not be printed. Letters will be
identified by city and state only.
Opinions expressed in the feedback column do
not necessarily reflect NAMBLA’s positions.
Letters are presented in the spirit of a free
and uncensored forum of ideas.
•
BOOKS OF INTEREST
Dear Mr. Rhodes,
I am a divorced mother raising 4 young
sons. It Is very difficult for me to
discuss the proper sex education they so
desperately need to know. If you can be
of any assistance or can channel me to
the proper agency, I would greatly
appreciate your expertise in this matter.
There is far too much abuse going on
in the world today. Children should not
have to suffer the psychological trauma of
misguided information. Proper sex
education and guidance should be taught
by knowledgeable adults who care about
the well-being of the child. I feel most
adults misinterpret sexual abuse and
exploitation. I do hope your group will
continue to crusade for better sexual
experiences with adults.
— Ms. G.
Bob Rhodes replies :
Thank you for your kind letter of
support. Enclosed are some of our
publications which may be of interest.
Other materials are available upon
request.
The following commercial sex education
books are all quite good. You should be
able to obtain them through most major
book stores.
Where Did I Come From (1973) and
What's Happening to Me? (1975) both by
Peter Mayle are quite excellent. They are
appropriate for very young children as
the facts of life and puberty,
respectively, are presented In a very
pleasant, easy to understand manner.
(Publisher: Lyle Stuart, Inc., 120
Enterprise Avenue, Secaucus, NJ 07094.)
The Playbook for Kids about Sex (1980)
by Joani Blank may be somewhat difficult
to obtain but Is well worth the effort.
(You may want to contact the publisher
directly.) Also for younger children, this
is a most extraordinary book In that it
deals directly with the child's own
sexual/sensual self- awareness.
(Publisher: Down There Press, PO Box
2086, Burlingame, Ca. 94010.)
Boys and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
(1981) deals factually with many concerns
of boys in their early teens. Although
almost exclusively text with few
illustrations. It is a very readable book.
(Publisher: Dell Publishing Co., 1 Dag
Hammarskjold Plaza, NYC, NY 10017.)
The Teenage Body Book by Kathy
McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman (1978) and
CHanginq Bodies, Changing Lives by
Ruth Bell ( 1980) cover a wide range of
subject matter. They are recommended for
their extensive use of correspondance
from teenagers which allows the reader to
Identify with other teens learning to cope
with their sexuality and identity.
(Respective publishers: Simon &
Schuster, 1230 Avenue of the Americas,
NYC, NY 10020; and Random House,
NYC.)
Most of these books discuss alternative
sexual orientations In a positive manner.
There are also additional sources which
we can recommend, for all age groups,
that are written for gay youngsters and
their families.
Parents and Friends of Lesbians and
Gays is a support group for children and
their families with local chapters
throughout the United States. You may
also want to contact them for information.
We hope that this Information will be of
some help. If we can be of any further
assistance in the future, please feel free
to contact us. AM our best to you and
your sons,
•
Dear Sir:
I find American laws very self-
contradictory. According to the ACLU,
homosexuals enjoy equality in legal rights as
straight heteros, etc. “The Rights of Gay
People" book deals explicitly with laws from
state to state. NAMBLA has an entirely
different point of view. Although NAMBLA does
point out differences of opinion, I supect the
police have more power than they should. Often
one heard stories of police brutality
(discrimination during the 1960's). Few
magazines dared to print these findings or
stories. Since the 1960's, many discriminatory
conditions have been improved, I found many
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IQ AND SEX . . .
continued from page 3
sex with an older female — all cri-
teria for ranking sociability. David
testified that he "liked” Zeh, would
walk 14 blocks to visit him, helped
him shop for groceries, helped him
move, and plays team sports, — all
additional examples of social adapt-
ability.
Defense attorney Brown expressed
concern that Zeh's prosecution was
"born out of an extremely dangerous
concept — bending the law to what
one loathes morally and ethically.
The law should not be set as an
instrument of social prejudice.”
Although homosexual sex is legal
in Ohio for persons past their
fifteenth birthday, a misdemeanor
statute of “tending to cause unruli-
ness” can be invoked.
Dr. Larson testified that David
showed: no physical signs of with-
drawal symptomatic of severe retar-
dation; good judgment under oath in
revising statements to police;
general behavior indicative of
independence; reflection on matters
of moral judgement; and sensitivity
to his care-provider's feelings, by
not wanting to reveal why he had run
away.
David left his sister's home and
was picked up by police in April of
1983. Police knew he had visited Zeh
and interrogated David about their
relationship.
Zeh's supporters have expressed
shock at his two-year sentence. They
hypothesize that Judge Schott feared
bad publicity if he appeared lenient.
They point out that a 28-year-old
man (a Republican with a patronage
job in the court system) was re-
quired to serve only two months of
concurrent sentences of one year and
a half year for "sexual battery”
that occurred during the two-week
period the man harbored David, had
him sniff poppers, and showed him
magazines “harmful to junveniles”.
Zeh's supporters also believe that
an anti-gay city councilman, Ken
Blackwell, may have tried to exert
influence when he visited Judge
Schott during a break in the trial.
Defense attorney Brown overheard
Blackwell discussing the case.
They say that Zeh's visibility
hampered his right to a fair trial.
Zeh is a reporter for two local gay
papers and for the Gay Community tiewa
of national circulation. As a gay
broadcaster, he beat indictments
over a sexual-lubricant comparison
on the air. He also successfully
litigated against a college that
canceled his gay course. Zeh is a
co-founder of the local gay coali-
tion. Despite this visibility Judge
Schott would not grant a change of
venue.
The trial took longer than ex-
pected. Tax-deductible donations to
help cover fees of the two expert
witnesses, legal fees, court costs,
and appeal charges can be sent to;
LGAU Defense Fund
P.O. Box 19530
Cincinnati, Ohio 45219
Feedback
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outlets of gay people now, where formerly
there were none. Canada has amended its penal
code of 1969, gay sex being legal if both
partners are at least 21 (18 in some areas),
and consenting. I think NA.MBLA is trying to
point out that a relationship can exist
between a 15 -year- old and a 2 1-year- old. Not
uncommon. Not merely upon a sexual basis, but
on a platonic level of acquaintance. Others
seem to push the sexual side of amorous
affairs, never realizing that there might be
another side to the story. These days you
don't have to do much to be arrested or
jailed. Some charges are unreal — seven years
imprisonment for a small crime. Ridiculous it
seems, but most legal matters are one-sided
anyway. One wonders about police action and
courtroom procedures — whether many prisoners
are victims of sexual harassment, or
fraudulent charges.
That so many arrests are being made hardly
seems plausible to me. Something funny going
on there. At least NAMBLA has pointed out the
other side of the coin. Of course with the
heterosexual so near, gay society cannot
flourish as it should. Straight society is
strangling others around them. Why should gay
society be subject to straight mores and
values? Too often one finds discrimination
when one should find equality and liberation-
1 certainly enjoy the NAMBLA publications.
— Alberta
•
FEMINISTS DISCOVER JOYS OF PEDOPHILIA
I have been a feminist pe-
dophile most of my life, and I’m
saddened by the actions of some of
my misguided feminist siblings who
think that a sexual relationship
between an adult and a younger per-
son is "exploitation," even when
the younger person wants the rela-
tionship to exist. The feminist
movement represents freedom for
all, regardless of gender. The
goal we should all be working for
is a society where anyone, regard-
less of age or gender, can have a
sexual relationship with another
consenting person of any age or
gender without being condemned, I
subscribe to Ms . magazine, and was
very pleased to see a letter they
published on page 4 of the February
1985 issue. I suggest you obtain a
copy of this magazine to see for
yourself the letter, which was
written by Keasha Palmer of Rock-
ford, Mich. She said;
"I must say something In
defense of older men, I*ve
been with younger men and
I've been with older men
and my experience is this;
it's the difference in ages
(innocence of youth/wisdom of
age and so on) that brings a
little more interest and
excitement into the re-
lationship. So, if you want
to get married, my advice is
marry somebody older or marry
somebody younger, but don't
marry anybody your own age."
These few words explain it so
well, don't they? Freedom to
choose is what it's all about. I
wouldn't go so far as to tell any-
one NOT to marry or have sex with
someone their own age, but I fully
support the notion that a person
must be free to choose their mar-
rlage/sex partner, whether that
person is their age, older or
younger; it's the freedom we must
work for and protect. Many of us
feminists have known this all
along. I'm glad to see a major
feminist publication like Ms .
finally agreeing with us!
-- PIE /f586 (R.B.)
Dear Media Columnist,
Did you catch any of the story of Cameron
Curly on "60 Minutes" on Sunday night,
February 17? The problem with the stepfather
who adopted him was NOT that he was gay (or
for that matter, white), but that Richard
Curly was sadistic, cruel, uncaring, violent,
and a drunkard, therefore unfit to raise boys.
The boy turned on him eventually and killed
him, which is what he deserved. He did not
love the two boys that he adopted. He used,
abused, and tortured them instead. Richard
Curly was not a boy lover, but a true child
molester, and such individuals deserve their
fate, whether it be death at the hands of
their victims, or incarceration at the hands
of society.
It is the Richard Curlys and the John Wayne
Gacys that receive all the publicity and get
all the attention. Those of us who truly love
boys, care for them and deserve their love are
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Page 4
FOR ALL THE BOYS IN THE UNIVERSE!
Allen Ginsberg made his appearance at A
Different Light on Sunday, March 10. The
Store was packed, and a long line of
people, each clutching a newly purchased
copy of his Collected Poems, snaked
through the place. When I finally reached
the front of the line, I took the
opportunity to thank Ginsberg for his
public statement of support of NAMBLA.
He accepted my thanks, called the attacks
on NAMBLA "si/ly," and proceeded to
inscribe my copy of Collected Poems, ’’For
all the boys in the Universe!" As he
signed the book and returned it to me, he
was careful to point out that the dedication
was not just for all the boys in the world,
but in the universe. (In case you don't
remember, it was in April of 1983 that
Ginsberg said, "Attacks on NAMBLA stink
of politics, witch-hunting for profit,
humorlessness, vanity, anger and
ignorance, obvious sadomasochistic pack
journalism. New York Times and Time
Magazine on the subject have been
obnoxiously hypocritical. I was in Europe
and didn't see TV. I'm a member of
NAMBLA because I love boys too —
everybody does who has a little
humanity.")
MEANWHILE, IN NEW YORK TOWN...
NAMBLA spokesperson Bob Rhodes has
learned from Norman Laurilla that A
Different Light's New York store is
discontinuing its "pedophilia" section, and
moving the books in that section to other
sections of the store. The decision to do
this was based on a letter from a non- gay
man in Orange County who is on the
speakers bureau of the chapter of Parents
and Friends of Lesbians and Cays in that
LOS ANGELES NEWS
by John Fish
area. The store will continue to carry the
NAMBLA Bulletin and NAMBLA Journal in
their periodicals section. Although the
letter was actually sent to the Los Angeles
store and forwarded by them to New York,
no such action has been taken here so far.
The Los Angeles store has decided to
discontinue carrying imported materials,
such as Pan/Spartacus publications,
Pojkart, etc., for fear of possible
harrassment by US Customs. At a time
when individuals who order such
non-pornographic materials from overseas
face the risk of having their names and
addresses turned over to local
anti-pedophile squads by US Customs,
their decision is unfortunate. I am told
that the Libertarian Bookstore in San
Francisco has begun carrying
Pan/Spartacus publications, so it is stilt
possible to buy their publications without
running the risk of being harrassed and
spied upon for the "crime" of having done
so.
It seems to me that if one letter from a
non- gay individual can have such a
profound effect on a gay bookstore, that
several letters from gay men expressing
their appreciation and need they feel for
such a section might also have some effect.
And a letter to the Orange County Parents
and Friends of Lesbians and Cays,
pointing out that many gay men have
younger lovers (and vice versa) and that
we too have parents and non-gay friends
who are just as worthy — and often in
need of — the support and acceptance
their group could provide if it would only
see past cultural prejudice and myth,
might also have some enlightening effect.
Then again, it might not. But suffering in
silence is not the solution. For those of
you willing to make the effort, the
addresses are:
A Different Light
548 Hudson Street
New York, NY 10014
A Different Light
4014 Santa Monica Blvd.
Hollywood, Ca. 90029
P-FLAC of Orange County
Speakers Bureau
PO Box 6212
Huntington Beach, Ca. 92646
One last thought, if you are well-read
and looking for full or part-time work, you
might apply for a job at A Different Light.
That way, should they ever hire a
boy lover, their staff will have the
opportunity to talk with us instead of
about us when reaching these decisions.
Most of their present staff are our friends
and have given us a great deal of
support, but even the best of friends can
only be expected to understand so much
and to go so far.
BACK TO LOS ANGELES
Finally, congratulations to Andrew Ross
Exier for the publication of his new Civil
Rights Newsletter, and thanks for his
interest and support of the man /boy love
issue. The newsletter Is available at A
Different Light, The International Cay and
Lesbian Archives, and at First Tuesday
and NAMBLA-Los Angeles meetings. □
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simply sent quietly away to prison or insane
asylums or other detention and brainwashing
facilities. Yes, the story of Cameron Curly
the adopted little Indian boy is a very
sad one. Cameron does not in my opinion
deserve to be in prison, and should be helped
to find a better life.
Good luck, and keep up the good work. — W
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Dear NAMBLA
I heartily recommend that all
readers see a play called “Coming
of Age in Soho," by Albert Innaura-
to .
It offers a healthy and ex-
ceedingly funny look at one man's
attempt at dealing with his love of
boys and his Inevitable conflicts
with the "straight" world.
The boys are good looking, the
acting (especially by the boys) is
superb, and what the playwright has
to say is really relevant to those
who wonder how they ever got
started on the outrageous practice
of loving boys and what it all
means.
We may be coming into an age
of long-awaited acceptance for our
kind. This is the kind of drama
that can sway skeptics into ac-
cepting our form of love as impor-
tant, relevant and meaningful.
New York
Dear NAMBLA:
In memory of Charles Burdick, I wish
to share a very sad happening that oc-
cured here in Colorado. It fills my
mind and soul with questions that I know
there are no definite answers to. A boy
only 8-years-old took his own life re-
cently. This incident has been with me
everyday. To think that a child this
young could have such pain hidden away
and that he could commit suicide just
burns my insides.
Charley Burdick's death should tell
all of us how we must become more in-
volved with children and the way their
true feelings and wants are. Society is
building large walla around children
such as "boy's shouldn't cry" and that
they should hide feelings of sadness or
love for fear of what others think.
My intentions of helping and listen-
ing to young people are going to be even
stronger now. I really would appreciate
some kind of column inthe Bulletin about
Charley and kids who may have feelings
like his tucked away inside of them.
Please make room for Charley and his
memory in the (Bulletin) so that other's
may take a look at a serious and growing
problem with young people today. It is
a problem with any age now!
Lakewood, Colorado
To the Bulletin Collective and the
NAMBLA membership:
Although I can not comment on
some of the Unicorn's complaints in
the Jan-Feb '85 issue because I am
not familiar with the facts, I am
In substantial agreement with him
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LOTS IS A CBIMB IH AMERICA
By: Andrew Ross Exier
"It isn't going to be easy for me to
type this letter; it is so cold in here
that my fingers are stiff. I had my
little cell enclosed with cardboard on the
bottom of the door, and cardboard covering
the opening over the door. Inside, I have
a small heater, actually a 200 watt bulb
with a tin can over it and a pot of water
on top for instant coffee..."
The above is the opening of a letter
written to this writer by Raymond Latham
from a solitary confinement cell in the
Maryland Penitentiary in Baltimore,
Maryland. Latham is now in his regular
cell of 45 square feet which he shares
with another inmate. His crime is LOVE.
Latham, a 69-year-old male engineer,
has been in and out of prison since 1978
for having consensual sexual and non-
sexual relationships with male teenagers.
He is currently serving a 50-year sentence
for talcing two boys (12 and 14-years-old,
respectively) into his home and loving
them. That sentence is much longer than
most rapists and murderers receive in this
country!
He was first charged in 1978 after
rejecting sexplay with four boys (who six
months previously asked him to "get it
on"). At that time, he volunteered to be
chemically castrated in order to qualify
for probation. In May of 1981, that pro-
bation was revoked because he "associated"
with a 15-year-old boy, in violation of a
special bench order that he not "associate
with anyone under the age of 18". The
judge sentenced him to 16 years but he was
released after 16 months.
Latham came out on parole, feeling
depressed from having his life and very
successful businesses repeatedly de-
stroyed. During his first week out he ran
into a 13 1 /2-year-old boy who he had
"taken in" while previously on probation
and who had visited him in prison. Ac-
cording to Latham, the boy took him to his
mother who welcomed him home from prison;
the boy's older sister kissed him; his
father even offered to overhaul his old
car. The boy then "piled his clothes into
Latham's car and went hone with him. The
two slept happily in each others arms that
ni^t. Latham's current prison term of 30
years is for association with the 13 1/2-
year-old boy.
Hone of the boys involved with Latham,
nor their parents, ever filed charges or
complaints against him, rather it was the
POLICE who were determined to put Latham
away and they even went so far as to
threaten one of the mothers with jail if
she didn't "cooperate".
Raymond Latham is only one of the
estimated thousands serving prison terms
for having consensual sex and/or friend-
ships with minors. Latham^s incarceration
is an injustice of the highest degree and
the gay and lesbian community should begin
to support Latham by pressuring the parole
board to release him from jail. Even
though hia case has received a lot of
publicity in the gay press, he claims that
he has only received about a dozen letters
of support. As gay and lesbian people,
and as a sexual minority, it is our duty
to begin to put an end to the abuse of the
real victims in these cases who are doing
time in jail because of who they choose to
love. Latham lost both his business and
his freedom for it.
He really need to launch the crusade
of all crusades to educate others that
consensual- man/boy love, women/girl love
and other intergenerational relationships
are perfectly healthy and moral, even
though illegal — and that the civil rights
of both the adults and young people need
to be upheld consistently.
It is a sick society that allows
rapists, robbers, and even murderers to go
free (or get 10-15 years), but locks up a
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on matters with which I am famili-
ar: namely, the Bulletin and the
Journal . I do not feel that NAMBLA
members must all have the same po-
litical perspective. But I do con-
sider it to be essential that the
organization and its members not
use NAMBLA as a forum to abuse boys
(or men) if T am to support it as a
"Love Association."
In addition to the Unicorn’s
cri*-icism of the photographs and
stories In the Bulletin and the
Journal that perpetrate the sexual
objectification of boys, I also see
an Inclination for us to view
NAMBLA and the Bulletin as being
for boy-lovers, rather than for
bov-lovers and for boys.
I am not saying, by any means,
that the Bulletin is completely
sexist and ageist and demeaning of
bovs. I am saying that it too of-
ten is. Further, I suggest that it
ought to be written for boys and
men
, not j u
St for
men .
Perhaps a
del
iberate ,
ever-p
resent
conscious-
ness in the
minds
of the
Bulletin ’ s
and
Journal
3 con
tribut
ors and ed-
i 1 0
r s that
those
public
ations are
for
both men and
boys
could sub-
sta
n t ia 1 ly
reduce
the
extent to
wh i
ch they
depict
boys
as sexual
objects .
I assume that few boys belong
to NAMBLA. However, we ought to be
making a place for them and make
them feel welcome. Because that’s
what we say we, and NAMBLA, are
about. And because boys will never
have their sexual rights restored
bv the law until, they demand them.
So let NAMBLA be a place and a
force that fosters everyone’s self-
resoec t .
Everett Jar os
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Dear Nambla,
Just read your latest bulletin and I’m very
glad to be a member. I have never been
convicted of anything, ever, so I'm doing my
bit to help you in every way I can, taking
chances others might not take to try to open
other people's closed minds on old and very
young love.
Please keep in mind that members will drift
in and out as egos fragile to begin with are
bruised in this tough game. Every organization
I have ever belonged to has a small group of
overworked, dedicated people doing the job on
the inside and a large mass of critics on the
outside some of whom do nothing.
The criticism is normal. Not to worry. It
means you have a very interesting program and
bulletin, in contrast with most bulletins in
the mail today.
Your ad in RED Magazine was great. Keep up
the good work.
— Member from the Small Wonder
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Dear editors.
The value I find in your publication and
your organization is the feeling that I am not
alone. Certainly by reading Feedback I can see
that all of the Issues that have plagued me
are also areas for discussion and disagreement
with your membership. I think we must keep in
mind that all the problems of consent,
dominance, love versus sex, etc, are found in
any loving experience. If our boys are aware
of what they are getting into and what
consequences could result, and have the
maturity to make decisions for themselves,
then let love have its course. 1 agree with an
earlier writer that there is too much doom and
gloom in the Bulletin. Of course we are
fraught with problems but let's revel in those
times when that special relationship fulfills
us. I do not grieve the loss of "Unicorn" for
I feel that he was "having us on" a little;
but of course that's what boys do so well.
I have had a relationship with a boy for the
past six years. He is now 19 and we have a
very open and honest rapport with each other.
Actually he has taught me how to relate to.
and deal with, boys for he has let me know
that I made a lot of mistakes in the first
years of knowing him. The most important
mistake was that even at the age of 13, he
could accept the closeness of love and the
fondling, but he despised the next day when
what had happened was ignored. He had so many
questions and desired to talk about his
feelings and our relationship but in my fear
of rejection this communication was closed
off. I am no poet but Mark has changed me in
many ways. Here are some lines I wrote to give
to him on his 18th birthday:
The Child of Messiadin
We walked the shore together
That boy with laughing eyes.
The lake was calm and cooling
Though hidden, he surmised.
Were evils dark and lurking
With tendrils reaching out.
He clung to me in fear and trust
And love... I would not doubt.
But that child of Messiadin
Today became a man
Discovering evils in the one
He thought would help him stand.
The lake is but a memory
Though still with some allure.
And the boy stands full of confidence
His eyes more clear and sure.
He found that life's experiences
Are not classed right or wrong
But help to build one's character
In precepts that are strong
Today the child of Mesiadln
Will start his life anew
A MAN of independent thought,
A friend for me that’s true.
— Robert Thomas
Dear NAMBLA,
The feature on the Greens' National
Children’s Program you printed in the March
Bulletin is a perfect example of the "dream
world" Nat Black complained about when he
resigned in the July 1984 issue. While some
of their points are good ones, such as
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man and throws away the key for his lowing
of boya.
The boys involved in these relation-
ships, I might add, are often traumatized
by law enforcement and so-called social
workers who pry into their private sexual
lives- These youhg people are interro-
gated until they "break" or are brain-
washed into "snitching". In many of these
cases, it is obvious that stories are made
up and fed to the children in order to
make a case for the prosecution. This may
very well be a factor in the current
McHartin School preliminary hearing in
which the owner and several teachers of
the Manhattan Beach, California pre-school
have been charged with several counts of
child molestation.
Baymond Latham's only hope, at this
point, is for individuals and organiza-
tions to request that the Maryland Parole
Department release him from jail. Several
people have already written, but hundreds
of letters are needed. Letters of this
nature should be addressed to:
VILLUM J. KUHKEL
Director of Maryland Probation Department
One Investment Place
Suite 600
Towson, Maryland 21204
Please copy letters to:
BAYMOlfD LATHAM
254 Porrest Street
Baltimore, MD 21202
As a long-time Gay Civil Rights Acti-
vist, I cannot stress enough how important
it is for us to write letters, make phone
calls, or contribute in any other way so
as to obtain Latham's immediate release
from his cold cell. It’s time to end
sexual repression in America! Latham’s
case would be a good starting point.
BIO: Exler received international media
attention when he sued Disneyland in
1980 over the right to dance at "The
Happiest Place on Barth" with his
then boyfriend.
In May 1984, an Orange County
Superior Court judge and jury ruled
that Disney's same-sex dance ban
violated Brier’s civil rights.
Disney has appealed the case.
Eller welcomes any and all
correspondence at:
6000 Sunset Blvd., Suite 209
Los Angeles, California 90028
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cleaniriJ up the environment* they are
proposing a total anarchy, by today’s
standards.
People like the Greens hate the wonders of
technology that benefit them in many ways:
improvements in health care, ’ air travel,
VCR’s, cameras, computers, lycra swim briefs,
etc. Not only are they so anti-consuraerlsm,
but in their world these things wouldn't have
been Invented.
1 think these people are losers in life who
don’t have what it takes to hold a good job
and step up to better living standards. I
wish NAMBLA would stop supporting any cause
anywhere in the world as long as it’s
libera.Vj and stop printing this drivel from
people who won' t grow up, and concentrated
on helping BT. 's in and out of Jail and make a
dent in tlie climate in this country.
— Texas
Dear NAMBLA Bulletin,
This afternoon I was on my way to see the
movie "Karate Kid" (which has to be one of
the year's top cryptic boy-love films) when I
passed by a gigantic church dedicated to Don
Juan Bosco, the 19th century Italian saint
who dedicated his life to "saving boys."
I got to thinking whether this
sex-negative, homophobic Catholic church
might ever one day experience a massive
coming out of the closet of the surely
immense number of clergy and religious (male
and female) who are youth lovers in their
(sometimes not so) covert and sublimated
ways .
What set me pondering this, granted,
enormous improbability was the seminar which
brought me to this bullet-ridden, soldier
infested capital — an exchange on liberation
theology, the Central American reality, the
role of the church in the midst of
revolutionary turmoil. If a church which has
for centuries been in many ways an ally and
an advocate of repressive political regimes
now finds significant portions of its
faithful (both lay and clergy) siding with
Marxist revolutionaries in struggles against
the imperialist system, is it Impossible to
believe that a powerful movement for sexual
liberation (including women, gays, youth
lovers, transpersons) might not also find a
rich source of well-organized cadres in the
ranks of repressed Roman Catholics?
It's just a thought, 1 don't mean to excuse
the unconscionable offenses now committed by
church officials against women and sexual
minorities — but those same officials are
often the ones who collaborate with dictators
while the grass- roots church struggles
against them. Sure, it might be nice to have
the cardinal of New York come out in favor of
gay rights, but I suspect it would be far
more fruitful if the sexual liberation
movement aimed its sights at that
well-communicated middle levdl of Catholicism
which is increasingly committed to anti-war
and anti-imperialist mobilization. My own
belief is that they would be far more
disposed to back the cause of sexual
liberation than anyone now believes.
These are just some random reflections I
had today as I wandered about this very
Catholic and very provocative city. I hope I
get them into the mail before 1 decide
they're not worth the paper they're written
on. Keep strong in the struggle.
— San Salvador, El Salvador
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Friends ,
Several years ago a dozen boys would
regularly stop by my apartment, eating
muncliies and playing computer games and
calking about things they wanted to talk
about. The relationships with these boys
ranged from very casual to very incense and I
dearly loved several of them.
As far as I know, all of these boys are
heterosexually oriented. In fact, a few asked
advice about dating and girls in general. It
gave me great (if bittersweet) joy to help
'my' kids grow up and become strong, mature
adults. (Much to the dismay of our opponents,
I say truthfully that our relationships went
on long after sexual attraction had passed.)
The professional child destroyers often ask
rhetorically what possible reason a straight
youngster could have for wanting sex with a
man who is older, stronger, fatter, etc.
Quite frankly there are more reasons than
there are relationships but three stand out
as especially common.
1) Mati/boy sex provides a safe outlet for
the sexual urges of the boy. Despite the
propaganda shoved at them, many boys
instinctively know that men who take the
trouble to befriend them are not likely to
abuse them. These days kids also know that
one word from them could destroy a man so
they have the ultimate say in just how far a
relationship goes. When dealing with girls
the boy is the one subject to these controls.
He doesn't need to worry about a man saying
he's been raped.
2) Man/boy relationships allow the boy to
satisfy his natural curiosity. All humans are
sexual beings (probably even Nancy Reagan) .
Our society has chosen to repress, deny, and
proscribe child sexuality. Far from
eliminating it, such measures increase its
strength a hundred fold, while giving kids no
outlet to express their feelings. The desires
and curiosity about those desires become
intense. Along comes a warm, friendly boy-
lover providing a chance to relieve these
pressures and explore one whole aspect of
sex. Many boys are eager to learn what we can
teach.
3) Man/boy relationships help the boy to
test his self-limits. Most of our
relationships involve boys in the process of
determining their own strengths, weaknesses,
desires, and dislikes. By having a sexual
relationship with a man they can see
themselves with his eyes and they coira to
understand themselves better. Some will
decide they want more gay sex, some only
straight sex, some will remain open to both
(and perhaps a sad few neither). With us they
are allowed to decide for themselves how Ear
they are willing to go.
Whatever the reasons they come to us,
though, most of our boys will grow up and out
of having sex with us. This is the nature of
our love; perhaps the essence. The
unrealistic assumption that all the boys are
gay will prevent the relationships from being
maximal for either of us.
We have the opportunity to move from
relationship to relationship learning from
and giving to each boy uniquely. Ideally,
each of our loves goes into the world a
happier person for having known us. That is a
very pro-social achievement.
— California
books
Think Twice: The Medical Effecte of
Physical Puniehment^ by Leslie
Taylor, M.D., and Adah Maurer, Ph.D.
Illustrated by Marianna Grenadier.
Berkeley, CA: Generation Books, 1985.
$4.95.
reviewed by John Fish
This book is like the little
girl who had the little curl in
that nursery rhyme of old. When
the book is good, it is very, very
good. And when it is bad, it is
horrid.
Fortunately, the overwhelming
majority of it is very, very good.
It is a well-written, clearly-
illustrated and, for the most part,
well-researched document. Marianna
Grenadier, a medical illustrator by
profession, provides line drawings
that graphically illustrate the
kinds, of unseen, internal physical
damage that can result from shaking,
yanking, punching, paddling, and
hair-pulling. Her drawings both
complement and clarify the accom-
panying text.
The text covers almost every kind
of physical abuse imaginable that is
doled out to young people in the
name of discipline. And there are
plenty of case histories about par-
ents and teachers that make Joan
Crawford look tame.
Few people, I think, would condone
the extreme forms of assault dis-
cussed in this book or would be sur-
prised at the amount of damage that
can result. A hard blow to the face
or abdomen can prove disabling or
lethal to a professional fighter,
let alone a small child.
More startling, perhaps, are the
kinds of long-term or permanent
damage that can result from the more
conventional forms of punishment.
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For instance, shaking a child
under the age of two often results
in whiplash injuries and permanent
brain damage. It can also cause
compression fractures in spinal
vertebrae leading to deformities of
the spine at physical maturity.
Forceful paddlings of young people
can result in fractures of the sa-
crum and tearing of the nerves that
control bladder and bowel functions.
Frequent or forceful paddlings can
also contribute to degenerative
changes in vertebrae and spinal discs
later in life. Injuries to the testes
can occur if the scrotum is acciden-
tally struck by the paddle. Paddling
Can even cause injuries to the penis
if it is rammed against the object
the punished person is leaning on.
All good reasons for outlawing this
cruel and inhumane form of punish-
ment that still goes on, quite
legally, in the schools of many
states and in the homes of too many
young people.
Beyond documenting the physical
damage such punishment can do to the
bodies of young people, the book
also presents studies showing that
physical punishments encourage
rather than deter aggressive behav-
ior and anti-social attitudes in
their victims. Suggestions for more
positive and more effective ways of
correcting young people and avoiding
unnecessary conflicts with them are
offered as alternatives to physical
punishments.
Amid all of this excellent infor-
mation are, however, a few absolutely
horrid passages that might charitably
be excused as due to the shortcomings
of conventional v/isdom.
After an excellent account of how
paddling can harm the genitals, the
authors lapse into psychobabble about
how ‘‘excessive stimulation” of “the
erotic zone that includes the but-
tocks” can “derange the normal pro-
creativity of a great many males”.
If Such nonsense frightens parents
into swearing off corporal punish-
ment, then I suppose such a silly
lie will have served a worthwhile
purpose. But it is a silly lie,
“documented” by such dubious data as
the writings of Rousseau and a study
by a seventeenth-century German
doctor. It seems out of place in the
context of the type of hard data
presented elsewhere in the book.
Then — at the close of the same
section — after recognizing the
pointlessness of trying to convince
young people who have never suc-
ceeded in saying no to a spanking
that they have a right to say no to
a sexual molestation, the authors
plunge into the darkness once again
when they conclude: “Beating on the
buttocks must be recognized as a form
of sexual abuse just as surely as is
touching any erotic zone.” Does this
include the treatment of diaper
rash? What about self-pleasuring by
the young person? Aren't the lips
and earlobes considered erotic
zones? Do you think the authors
know more about the effects of
physical punishment on the body than
they do about the difference between
sexual abuse and sexual pleasure?
The third and final horrid passage
I found occurs in the introduction
to the section on alternatives to
punishment. The authors state, “Most
parents want well-behaved, obedient,
lively but pleasant children.” While
one cannot question the statement's
accuracy, for some reason the authors
do not ever challenge what supposed
right parents have to exact obe-
dience, as opposed to encouraging
cooperation reached through mutual
respect, understanding, and agree-
ment. Making young people into obe-
dient servants without maiming or
killing them is not much of a goal
so far as I'm concerned. Perhaps the
authors feared that showing the harm
of physical punishment and the bene-
fits of empowerment at the same time
would be more than most parents
could swallow. And the book doee
seem to be addressed primarily to
parents and parents-to-be. I suppose
it is some indication of progress
that the offending statement begins
with “most parents” rather than “all
parents”. Still, it would have been
a far better book if young people
were presented more like the intel-
ligent, sensitive beings they are
and less like lumps of clay to be
molded or like china that decreases
in worth with damage.
Despite these reservations, I
still believe the book has much to
recommend it. It makes worthwhile
reading for anyone concerned about
the plight of young people in our
violent society. A poll of the
readers of Psychology Today showed
that 51 percent see nothing wrong
with using physical punishment on
young people. This shows how ignor-
ant our society is about the effects
of punishment and how desperate the
need for information is. At the
beginning of the book the authors
state that one of reasons they wrote
it was a letter from a social worker
who did not believe spanking could
actually kill a child. I suppose
that's why the book opens with a
December 1984 Kansas City newspaper
account of a girl who died from in-
ternal bleeding and a broken spine.
Her parents said she had stopped
breathing after they spanked her.
Well, you know how kids overreact!
PAMPHLETEER...
continued from page 2
that “consensual, non-abusive adult-
child sexual relationships” do exist.
After his files were seized,
Sonenschein was subjected to a five-
hour interrogation, during which an
Austin policeman said repeatedly,
"Your research is finished. Your
research is through. I've finished
your research for you. You can re-
search anything but this.”
“This is a sign”, Sonenschein
observed, “of how great a control
that state has over who can do re-
search and what official knowledge
is to be.” It indicates that the
state's power to prevent research
and forbid the dissemination of
informtion that contradicts the
official line, Sonnenschein added,
® 1985 by Daniel Tseng
Sonenschein may be contacted at P.O. Box
4755, Austin, TX 78765.
Reprinted from: Philadelphia Gay iYeWa, 2
May 1985.
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Page 9
BOYS IN THE MEDIA
by Lloyd M.
TWO CHOIRS: There are four sets of
Vienna Choir Boys, each with 24 singers.
Two choirs always remain in residence at
the Augarten Palace in Vienna, Austria.
One group generally travels in Europe,
the other intercontinental. This season's
contingent has been to British Columbia
and Bermuda and just about everywhere
In between. They average 5 or 6 concerts
per week. The retinue includes a
director, pianist, nurse, bus driver, and
tour manager. The boys are required to
sleep 12 hours a night, plus take
afternoon naps. To prevent boredom, the
group does not perform the identical
program at every engagement.
Some boys are "sliders" whose pitches
descend gradually, but others, called
"brakers" lose it in a matter of weeks.
But they are always allowed to finish off
the term.
Founded in 1979 (some 481 years after
the Vienna Choir), the Boy Singers of
Maine perform 25-40 concerts a year in a
variety of setting in New England and
southeastern Canada. They have a full
repertoire, from Ave Verum Corpus to
Jeremiah was a Bullfrog, and have
collaborated with the Portland Symphony
Orchestra. Director is Dr, Michael Brug.
GOSSIP: Cary Coleman, now 17, wanted
to leave "DifPrent Strokes" because he
was getting bored with the show and
found his continued appearance as a child
demeaning. But he was taken aback when
the show was cancelled. Another network
is looking into picking it up... Because
of the success of Bill Cosby's show, look
for several black family shows in the fall
lineups... Peter Billingsley Is working on
a new Jean Sheppard movie about a
summer camp, called "Revolt of the Mole
People". Billingsley's "A Christmas
Story", which by the way was very
successful In Europe, was also
Sheppard's.
FILM; A 1984 Canadian film, "Mario"
appeared at the Cleveland Film Festival.
Set in beautiful but desolate upper
Quebec, 10-year-old Mario (Xavier Norman
Petermann) communicates without words
only with a ragged toy coyote and his
beloved older brother Simon, who cares
for him while his parents are busy. But
their imaginary world of heroes is
neglected when Simon falls In love with a
girl. My correspondant reconrmends It
highly, if you can catch it.
As I write this there are two new
movies out, reviewed in the newspapers
but not personally. One, "MacArthur's
Children", deals with post- World War II
Japan as seen through the eyes of two
fifth-grade boys; the other, "Marvin and
Tige", is about a man who befriends a
street-smart black 11-year-old.
NOSTALGIA: From the Boy Actors Film
Society newsletter of Oct/Nov 1978. Scott
Baio, 16, was the hot teen idol then, but
the cover boy was Brian Forster from The
Partridge Family. Marc Gilpin, 11, star of
Jaws II, could be written to, c/o his
agent. Matthew Anton from "Pretty Baby"
was in "Bad News Bears go to Japan."
Matthew Laborteaux, n, was about to be
adopted on Prairie as the Ingalls moved to
the city. (Reruns are plentiful now).
There's a picture of Matt and brother
Patrick, 13 (both were adopted in real
life) jumping into a backyard pool, in
Speedo prints. □
Feedback
Unless pennission is specifically given
to do otherwise, names of contributors to
this column will not be printed. Letters
will be identified by city and state only.
Opinions expressed in the feedback
column do not necessarily reflect NAMBLA’s
positions. Letters are presented in the
spirit of a free and uncensored forum of
ideas- ^
Dear Mr. Melzer,
This letter is to request that you cancel
my membership in NAMBLA and remove my name
from your files. I feel that I owe you an
explanation, and I would also like to point
out that I still believe that once persons
are 14 or 15 they have a ri^t to make intel-
ligent decisions about their sex lives.
Recently, one of my neighbors' young son
(10 years of age) was seduced and molested by
another neighbor. I have known these people
for many years and have basically been a
substitute father to the boy since his own
father died two years ago. Aside from the
extensive pl^sical damage done to this boy
there has been massive psychological damage.
Before this incident the boy was happy and
outgoing. Now he is afraid of his own shadow
and extremely withdrawn. He answers most
questions with yes or no and nothing else.
His mother has been tremendously affected by
the ordeal and requires pills to sleep. As
for myself, I am extremely upset and angry at
the whole incident.
I am quite aware that you, and NAIffiLA in
general, have no use for any police officer
or department, and I felt the same way before
this incident. However, I would like to say
that the officers who h^dled this case were
far from the bastards you make them out to
be. As a matter of fact, it was just the
opposite. The miformed officers who res-
ponded to the call were just fantastic with
the boy, his mother and myself. They showed
great concern and caring and did not treat me
as an outsider as they easily could have. I
should mention that I was there because the
boy's mother did not know what to do and
asked me to come over. The officers returned
the next day (their day off) to find out how
the boy was. The police did arrest the man,
and he is going to go to trial.
It will not be easy for the boy’s mother,
and I will help him get through the trial
which I hope will generate little publicity.
So far, there has been none. The bastard had
better hope that he goes to jail where he
will be safe because If I get my hands on him
I'll tear him apart so that he never does
this to another kid.
I think that you and each of the members of
NAMBLA should be forced to see the pain a kid
goes throu^ at the hospital after an as-
sault. Perhaps it would open a few eyes. I
know it did mine. As well possibly if you
treated the police as people and listened to
what they had to say about their experiences
with the victims of this type of assault.
Believe me, when they say the kid goes
throu^ a living hell, they are not kidding.
When the police arrested the animal who com-
mitted the assault, he did not see anything
wrong with what he had done and would not
hesitate to do it again because kids really
enjoyed it. I can safely say that this boy
did not enjoy being brutalized, beaten and
having his anus ripped wide open.
I will close by saying that I do not hold
anything against you, NAMBLA, or any of the
members. You are doing what you think is
right, but I hope that you can understand
tliat I have to do what I feel is right.
— Canada
Peter Mclaer replies :
I recently received your' letter and ,
despite a very heavy schedule, feel ccmpelled
to answer you right away. Ihe incident you
describe is shocking and fills me with
revulsion. What saddens me nearly as much is
the implication in your letter that I and
others in NAMBIA would condone or, at best,
be indifferent to the brutality you have
witnessed .
As you know, there is no way to answer the
question, "When did you stop beating your
wife?" if you never beat your wife in the
first place. By presupposing a false premise,
the questioner, at the very least, puts his
adversary in a defensive position. Your
letter begs the question in a similar way.
Much brutality has been perpetrated a^inst
women throu^out history and occurs daily to
this day. Have you ever heard hetero-
sexuality put down because of that? There
are groups who teach their young hatred
towards others . Have you heard arguments
a^inst educating the yoxmg on this account?
There are fathers vdio, for their own ego
gratification, goad their sons into
participation in sports far beyond the
youngsters' physical and emotional
capabilities. Have sports become unpopular
because of such excesses?
Loving and caring sexualily, mutually and
consensually enjoyed, does not need any
apology no matter vdio the participants are.
Society has always begged the question on
inter^nerational, hcsnosexual love, and
NAMBLA has always refused to fall into the
trap of apologizing for the evils that have
nothing to do with man/boy love. There is no
doubt that the police whcan you describe were
sensititive and caring. But these very same
agents of society invariably brutalize men
and boys in the overwhelming portion of cases
involving consensual, caring and loving sex.
It is because of this blind spot in society
and its police agents that NAMBLA has often
expressed its contempt for the hypocrisy that
is much too evident.
You have been a member for too short a time
to be aware of NAMBLA 's revulsion against all
types of violence against youth. We have
spoken out against the U. S. draft
because it selectively brutalizes the young.
¥e have condemned Ifestle's marketing of
infant formula because of its misuse and
deleterious effect on children. The complete
list of our positions and actions on behalf
of youth is much too long to list here.
Your suggestion that members of NAMBLA be
forced to see the pain that children suffer
is presumptuous. The pain that children
suffer because of poverty, ignorance and
bigotry is on our TV screens everyday as,
simultaneously, a well-fed, smug audience
piously sings along, "we are the children, we
are the world watches commercials
telling them to stuff their faces with Big
Macs and uncritically swallows the Orwellian
bullshit about the "peacekeeper" missiles
which will one day destroy all children.
The "animal" who assemlted your neighbor's
son is probably mentally ill. Your revulsion
is understandable, but your words speak of
rationalization and guilt. You imply that
►
Page 10
"DISPLACED PERSON"
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s short story
"Displaced Person" deals with the
offspring of American G*l/s and German
women in post-World War II Germany,
The story is a heartwarming drama
about a young, half-black, half-German
homeless boy, somewhere in post-war
Germany, who believes that a black army
sergeant is his father.
The boy, portrayed by Julius Gordon,
lives in a makeshift orphanage. His chief
goal in life Is to find his roots by
locating his father whom, he has been
told, was a black American Cl,
One day when a group of American
soldiers come into the area, the young
boy sees a black sergeant (Stan Shaw),
the first black man he has ever laid eyes
on. He immediately believes that this man
must be his father.
The sergeant is shocked when he is
approached by this adorable young black
boy speaking German and calling him
"papa." It Is the first time he has been
aware of the problem: children left
homeless by the departure of their
American Gl fathers.
That problem, first written about by
Vonnegut in 1950, still exists in Germany
and is responsible, in part, for the
continuing anti-black sentiments that exist
in Germany today, according to a story
which appeared in the March 1983 Issue of
Newsweek. It is estimated that since
World War 11, the story said, more than
10,000 "besatzungs-kinder" (occupation
children) have been born to German
mothers and black Aiif»erican fathers. □
Feedback
sex is all right once a person is 14 or 15,
: yet the brutal type of assault you describe
can occur to people of all ages and of both
i sexes. The assault can as, easily be carried
\ on by a minor as . by an .adult. • The
I presumption that violence and sex are
inextricably connectected in man/boy
relationships has been engendered by society
and has naturally caused isolated boy-lovers
to feel great guilt. This guilt has resulted
! in a rai^ of reactions varying from mild
; rationalization to suicide.
1
(The individual who wrote the letter of
, resignation has since reconsidered. His
I letter and the accompanying reply have never-
1 theless been reprinted to help clarify the
many misconceptions that still exist regard-
ing NAMBIA. The Canadian member points out
that his unfortunate experience has given him
new respect for the police.)
Dear NAMBLA:
In the November issue, the
Each One Get One! piece says, "Your
friend may probably trot out the
argument that It is dangerous to
belong to NAMBLA and that his name
will be seized by some police agen-
cy. Although is argument is sil-
ly, don't tell him that . . . NAM-
BLA is a legal civil rights group.
Straight society may not like us,
but there is nothing legal it can
do against us. If anyone seizes
our records, belonging to NAMBLA
won*t be the problem. Our society
will have become totalitarian, and
no one will be safe!"
I hate to be the bearer of bad
news, but our society is already
totalitarian, as the raid on Valida
Davila’s home and the seizure of
the Children’s Sensuality Circle
membership list by San Diego police
Indicates. If any group has been
above reproach on this issue, it
has been C.S.C. If any individual
championing children's rights as
sexual beings is beyond reproach,
it is certainly Valida Davila, If
she is not safe from attacks, no
one is.
Last night on KHT-TV (Los An-
geles) news, there was a story on
the fact that the San Diego County
Sherriff would not be bringing any
charges against Valida because
there was no evidence that she had
distributed any pornography to mem-
bers of C.S.C, and because there
was no evidence that she had any
sexual contact with minors. But
photographs of Valida taken at her
home were shown and the assertion
was made that her membership in-
cluded a "rogues* gallery of con-
victed child molestors" whom Valida
was supposed to have put in contact
with one another for illicit pur-
poses. It was also stated that the
police were still going through the
files seized in the raid and for-
warding any information on various
Individuals to authorities through-
out this country.
Somehow, I wish the Bulletin
had been contacted by someone in
San Diego after the raid took place
in June so a report on it could
have been made. It is obvious tha
members of C.S.C, who are also NAM-
BLA members could have benefited by
being forewarned that their member-
ship list had been seized.
In any event, the fear that
our membership list might be
seized, I think, is not "silly,"
though the notion that the police
will limit their attacks against us
to those which are legal certainly
Is .
It _i_s^ dangerous to belong to
NAMBLA, and you do not have to vio-
late any laws to be held up to pub-
lic ridicule, have your personal
effects seized, be fired from your
Job, disowned by your family and
"friends,” threatened, harrassed ,
beaten, etc. The paradox is that
it will always be dangerous until
enough of us are willing to risk
the dangers and become members*
There is no way to make NAMBLA
and/or man/boy love "safe" without
first facing and risking and en-
during the very real dangers that
frighten us so much.
A German who grew up during
Hitler’s reign of terror recently
remarked, "The Holocaust did not
begin with the murders. It began
with the silence." That is why
belonging to NAMBLA is worth the
risk of having your name seized by
a police agency. Better to risk
that, than another Holocaust.
— John Fish
•
Dear NAMBLA,
Being raised in the south in a somewhat
religious family, I grew up with many
questions. By the age of five, I was well
aware of ray sexual desires, I knew I was
attracted to males physically, and it wasn’t
until I started school chat I was taught my
feelings were wrong.
Before my teen years, ray preacher asked
about baptizing me. I told him 1 really didn't
know anything about God, so he quoted Luke
2:41-52. He told me how Jesus knew by age 12
what he wanted, and stood up for it. If this
is true, then why aren't young males and
females allowed to decide on a subject much
more akin to their physical and sexual needs
than their religious beliefs, i.e. what they
choose to do with their bodies and who they
wish CO share them with. Does it all seem
fair? — Colorado
Page 11
FILM REVIEW
"IT'S MY BODY!"
by Frank Thompson
Remember The Deputy, and his teen-
age lover, at the New York Gay
Film Festival? The film What
Have I Done to Deeerve This? is a
wonderful black comedy about a Spain
that few foreigners have ever seen,
nor — for that matter — all that
many Spaniards, Over the past five
years or so, Spanish mores have been
changing at a dizzying pace.. This
picture wastes no time in showing us
the new age that has dawned.
In the opening scene, Gloria
(Carmen Maura) , an attractive young
cleaning woman, is going about her
work in a martial arts academy in
Madrid. A naked man beckons to her
from the shower room. As if in a
trance, Gloria joins him, fully
dressed, for a steamy session under
the shower.
In the hands of a lesser director
than Pedro Almodovar, or with a
lesser actress than Carmen Maura,
the scene could have been squalid.
In fact, it is funny, sad, realis-
tic, and touching, all at the same
time. And so is the whole movie!
Gloria lives in a tiny apartment
in one of those low-income housing
projects that ring Madrid, She
swallows caffeine tablets to get
through her daily 18 hours of drudg-
ery. Her 14-year-old son Toni — cute
and worldly-wise — peddles heroin to
get enough money to take his hep
grandmother and their pet lizard,
“Money,” back to the country.
When Gloria asks her angelic 12-
year-old son Miguel (Miguel Angel
Herrung) where he was all night, he
blandly replies, "I was at johnny's.”
He then shrugs, “So what — it's my
body. I have a right to use it as I
please. ”
Later Miguel and his mother go to
see the dentist. The dentist throws
his arm around the beaming flirt and
says, “What a beautiful boy!” Mother
asks, with a smile, “Oh, you like
children?” The man answers, “Yes.
But I never had any and I've always
wanted to adopt one.” He leans the
lovely boy back in the dental chair
and their lips almost touch.
Later Gloria “sells" Miguel to the
dentist (so she can purchase a hair
dryer). But she warns the man, “He's
always been independent.” Young
Miguel interrogates the dentist, “Do
you have a TV — a video? And I want
to study art.” The eager but rather
plain-appearing man beams back, "No
problem at all!"
Among the many amusing characters
is Cristal, a barbie-doll sweet
hooker who lives upstairs at the
project. When she asks Toni to take
out a drug purchase in trade, he
declines but proposes she entertain
his younger brother, instead. As
Cristal leads Miguel upstairs,
mother reminds her to make him sand-
wiches for school in the morning.
In her room (decorated to promote
sensuality) , Cristal asks Miguel what
kind of costume would turn him on.
The boy solemnly answers, “That's kid
stuff. You look ok." She modestly
dons a bridal outfit and Miguel
rewards her with a sweet kiss on the
cheek — for starters.
Starry-eyed Miguel appears again
at the finale of the picture. Gloria
has accidently killed her cabdriver
husband. She has kissed Toni and
grandma off on the bus that will
take them back to the country. She
comes back to her empty apartment
and for a moment appears to contem-
plate ending it all from the tiny
balcony. But wait! Suddenly Gloria
sees her sweet guardian angel appear
down below. Miguel explains, “It was
fun at first, but I'm not ready to
settle down,”
And so these two beautiful people
live happily ever after, or at least
until they each find “the right man”l
What Have I Done to Deeerve Thie?
is having an extended run at the
Waverly Theatre in New York City
(Greenwich Village) . □
WOMAH GETS PROBATION FOR SEX WITH BOY
A former Maryland elementary school
teacher pleaded guilty April 23 to a six-
month relationship irith a 12-year-old male
student of hers and was placed on three
years supervised probation. Hazy Kathleen
Gladner, 33, met the boy, whose name vaa
withheld, when she was his third grade
teacher at the Stedwick Elementary School
in Gaithersburg. Prom June 1984 until her
arrest in January 1985, according to a
report in the Baltimore Sun April 25,
1985, she and the boy had sexual inter-
course 18 times at her home. Montgomery
County Circuit Administrative Judge David
L. Cahoon ordered Gladner to remain in
psychotherapy and to be precluded from
jobs involving “close association with
minors". He reserved the right to impose
a maximum tO-year jail term if she vio-
lates the conditions of her sentence.
Mrs. Gladner's relationship was dis-
covered when the parents of the boy found
letters she had written to him. The boy
used to baby ait for the woman's child.
Gladner testified that she had been
perceiving things out of focus. '*I have
been jarred to another point of view. I
can’t change where I have been, but I can
change where I am going
Dr. Laurence T. Allen, a psychiatrist.
recommended the counseling as an alterna-
tive to jail, saying he did "not believe
there was any intention of exploitation"
of that “she went looking for a younger
child to have a personal relationship
with/’
Judge Cahoon noted that the teacher
had “a reputation for being effective and
committed,” but also said that "by the
commission of this criminal act, she vio-
lated a very significant trust that was
imposed on her by virtue of her employ-
ment □
OVERSEA NEWS
DAVID JOT, one of the PIE (Paedophile
Information Exchange) defendants was sen-
tenced in London on November 13, 1984 for
his participation in publishing PIB's
membership magasine CONTACT!
Ve have been informed that in March
David has been beaten up by a co-prisoner
and lost two front teeth thru the attack.
Send letters of solidarity to him at:
David Joy, #258407
H.M. Prison Wandsworth
Heathfield Rd,
GB- LONDON SV18 3HS
Page 12
ENTRAPMENT OF THE MONTH
by Peter Melzer
In the April issue of the Bulletin we
reported on a new scam calling itself
Candy's Love Club (C.L.C.)* Within days of
the Bulletin's mailing, a member sent us
the following communication.
Dear Sirs! I am a member of your group,
and I'd just like to thank you for the
super info on C.L.C. in your last newslet-
ter! The newsletter has made me very
careful about such scams! Tliey [C.L.C. J
sent the question sheet before I had
received the latest issue. I now know not
to send in that questionnaire! They did
respond to a follow-up inquiry I had sent
them, letter asked how and why they got
oy name. I also asked for more information
on their club. Their response is enclosed.
Dear [name withheld],
I surely can understand your concern and
reticence in responding to our efforts in
operating our private club. If it makes
you feel any better, there have been sev-
eral other letters similar to yours. I'll
try to explain a little more about the
club and perhaps put your mind at ease.
Remember, we've also taken a chance by
asking you to join the club.
The club was organized by myself, a lady
friend and another man. We are strong
believers in vdiat we are doing. I know
what it's like to be ripped off by compa-
nies that could care less about customer
satisfaction, by U.S. Customs officials
and by freaks and weirdos who are just
c\iriosity seekers. There is another man
fri^lfltlantiio Citg:, N.J.J who isf^ovidin^
Ananciai ba6kin^ior our little^ro jec L : *
extreme^ wealthy and very
interested in our "special" interests and
would like to see our efforts succeed.
We have gone througji great lengths to
purchase the ri^t kinds of nailing lists
and we have been very selective in deci-
ding who will be given membership in the
club. A great nximber of the members have
been obtained through nomination by other
present members \dio could give at least
some assurance about the trustworthiness
of the nominee and his open-minded posture
about sexual preference.
As to how we came about your name, I
can't precisely say. It was from one of
the sources above. We have nearly 1,0(X}
members now and we can't recall the exact
source of your nomination.
We're not surprised or insulted by your j
rmi.pnfinY began our club in
/ifaddonf ield . N.J.J but we were put under
pressure and threats cf reprisal and
prosecution from the narrow-minded and
conservative element which controls that
area. Thus the move to Virginia. We feel
we are doing nothing illegal; Simply
exercising our 1st Amendment ri^ts to
freedom of speech and expression.
I don't know if this helps ease your
concern or not. In any case we would
love to have your friendship and support.
We've met many wonderful people thru the
club and hope to get to know you better.
Whatever you decide, I wish you the best.
Keep the faith,
f Bradford T MacDonald et al
The C.L.C. letter reeks of the rhetoric
of the entrapper, but one part of it
should be especially disturbing to even a
casual reader. If they go throu^ so much
trouble in purchasing their mailing lists,
and if they are so damned selective in
deciding who will be given membership, why
then can't they anwer the simple question
of where they get a person's name. They
are surely bungling fools and/or police
agents. I wouldn't take a chance with
either possibility.
Shun new Biglish paedophile publication
An innocuous looking publication from a
group calling itself ^dophile Friendship
Service (PPS; has surfaced. The premiere
(and we hope the final) issue consists of
a collage of photos and informational tid-
bits ^thered from the British media. Also
included in the issue are an introduction,
a review of PAN, membership information,
promise of dubious special offers, solici-
tation to buy video-cassettes and a caveat
against sending pornography or against
breaking any laws.
If that were all there was, there would
be little reason to put down this harmless
looking, unideological pamphlet full of
egregious misspellings. The pamphlet and
the organization are a one man effort. The
man, Lee Edwards (alias Ed Brand), is a
known informer for the Ihglish Sunday rag.
The News of the World. When he was a mem-
ber of PIE, Edwards obtained names and ad-
dresses of other members and sold them to
that publication. The fact that Edwards
has a 14-year-old lover has been published
in the British media, yet no police prose-
cutions have resulted. The facts speak for
themselves .
CALENDAR
San Francisco NAMBLA
meeting; Free Forum
Bookstore, 1800 Market
St. 6:30 PM
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KIDS FIGHT BACK
BRONX YOUTH, TIRED OP PLAYING "VICTIMS,"
STRIKE RACK
AcGordinff to a press release
obtained by the Bulletin and re-
printed below, three New York mo-
thers and eight youths have filed a
massive federal civil rights law-
suit against various City and State
governmental ^agencies and law en-
forcement officials. The charges
are of having used "outrageous and
criminal tactics" during the course
of an investigation In which some
of the present plaintiffs were the
alleged "victims."
The development of this case
merits attention. A successful
outcome may set legal precedents
and inspire many hard-hit-by-
repression youths everywhere, since
it surely beats suicide as a way of
fighting back.
These courageous people need
support and financial help. To
maintain a lawsuit alive and
healthy through our system of
Justice takes money. Make
contributions payable and address
to:
"Kids Fight Back" Fund
P.O. Box 73
Paramus, NJ 07653-0073
Press Release
MOMS AND TEENS HIE $20CM FEDHIAL
SUIT AGAINST POLICE AND HIQNX DAs
FOR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL ABUSE
IIEW YORK — Two mothers and ei^t youths
ranging in age from 11 to 18 years, have
filed a federal civil rights lawsuit
against officer Robert Maginnis and his
partner Vito (last name unknown) of the
Manhattan South precinct, Bronx ADAs
Marianne Jennings, Mitch Garber and
Charles Siegel and other City and State
officials, including Mayor Koch and
Governor Cuomo.
The suit attacks what these parents and
youths call outrageous and criminal
tactics used by these officers and DAs in
their investigations of alleged sexual
contact between the youths and a
56-year-old same gender oriented (sic) adult
friend named Ed Bagaro^y. Immediately
after the suit was filed on March 2p,
Federal Judge Goettel of the Southern
District of New York, because of the
sensitive nature of the issues involved,
issued a protection order to safeguard the
identities of the parents and youths. For
that reason, they may be identified only
by their initials. The state officials
were named in the suit for permitting the
tactics being challenged to exist in their
jurisdiction.
In April 1985, a tliird mother, Mrs.
E.M. , joined the suit after finding out
that officer Maginnis repeatedly abducted
her son, 14-year-old D.M. from school
every two or three days for five hours at
a time to interrogate him about the
alleged sexusil acts. This happened about
thirteen times without her knowledge. Tlie
harrassment began out of no'rfhere. No
complaints had been filed. D.M. reports
that there was no sex between him and Mr.
Bagarozy, that he told Maginnis this and
that the officer would not accept his
statement. D.M. was told by this officer
that he would be arrested, that he was a
"queer" and that all of his friends were
"queer." He was repeatedly harassed in
this manner for four to five hours at a
time during a time when he should have
been in school. After a vrtiile, D.M.
stopped going to school to avoid Maginnis.
The constant pressure became unbearable.
D.M. states that he lied to the grand jury
when he told them that a sexual act had
occurred .
D.M. also reports that during one of the
sessions Maginnis took him to the Bronx
Court House to be interviewed by ADA
Jennings. She told D.M. , "We really want
to get this man. He molests five-year-
olds. Even if nothing happened, we'll do
anything for you, and if you say scaaething
did happen, we'll be able to put him away
for years."
Fourteen-year-old M.O. was told by
Maginnis just before going into the grand
jury, "I have your school records right
here. You've been truant. If you don't
cooperate, I'm going to come down real
hard on you and have you put in Spofford."
M.O. also reports that he lied \riien he
told the grand jury that there had been
sex between himself and Bagarozy.
Both D.M. and M.O. appeared on the
Independent Network News broadcast on New
York City’s Channel 11 Tuesday evening,
April 50 and described how they had been
coerced into lying.
Thirteen-year-olds M.J. and T.S.,
14-year-old L.R., and 18-year-old R.R. are
also plaintiffs in the suit. They were
harassed in a similar fashion but always
maintained that there had been no sexual
contact. M.J. was held in a room by
Maginnis for hours during which time the
officer intimidatingiy placed his gun on a
table, the barrel pointing toward the
youth. The boy was told that if he didn't
cooperate he would go to Spofford.
Maginnis graphically described how the boy
would be gang-raped there. Mrs. J.S.
witnessed the gun on the table. V/hen M.J.
would not give in to this pressure to make
him lie, his mother, Mrs. N.J., was told,
"Talk to your son and make him cooperate
with us." Mrs. N.J. responded that her son
iiad told the truth and she would not force
him to lie. Fourteen-year-old L.R.
received the same threats of incarceration
and gang rapes.
The parents of these boys are shocked
and outraged that such things could happen
to their sons at the hands of the police
and DAs whose supposed duty is to protect
them. They are seeking ^00 million in
damages as well as publicity for this case
in the hope that public outrage will make
it impossible for police to brutalize
children in this manner.
Also being challenged by the suit are
the statutes in the law which encourage
these tactics and which are being used to
deprive their sons of their freedoms of
association, privacy and due process. One
of the mothers, Mrs. J.S., was held
against her will for seven hours in front
of numerous witnesses, because she would
not let her son T.S. be questioned without
her being present. Jennings then proceeded
to accuse Mrs. J.S. , in crude and explicit
language, of having had sex with Bagarozy.
This confirmed for Mrs. J.S. the accuracy
of her son's account to her.
During the April 50 broadcast on Channel
1 1 , Bronx DA Mario Merola claimed he knew
nothing of D.M. and M.O. recanting their
testimony, even thou^ three weeks earlier
he had been served as a defendant in this
Federal suit. The papers served included a
sworn affidavit by M.O. stating that his
grand- jury testimony was a coerced lie. In
the same telecast, Jennings denied using
coercive techniques herself but would not
vouch for the tactics that the police may
have used. Officer Maginnis admitted
interrogating the youths without their
parents' knowledge.
According to the mothers, this is not an
isolated incident. These tactics are part
of police training and could be used on
the children of any parents. One objective
of the law suit is the elimination of such
police brutality on irinocent youths.
Announcements
Dear NAMBLA Members & Friends in San
Francisco and Northern California:
The San Francisco Gay Pride Parade
will be held on June 30th this year.
All who will be participating with
us should attend our June 1st meeting
for more information. We are having
T-shirts made which we will be
wearing in the parade. The shirts
will cost $8 each and will bear the
inscription “NAMBLA, PROUD AND
UNAFRAID”, Please bring $8 to the
meeting June 1st so that we can order
a shirt for you I (Anyone who is not
marching may also order a shirt).
Don't miss out on this fabulous
special offer!
Our new mailing address is:
1800 Market St., #800
San Francisco, CA 94102
Phone:
(415) 864 - 0952 #800
As a reminder, S.F. NAMBLA chapter
meetings are now being held the first
Saturday of each month at 6:30 p.m.
at “Free Forum Books", 1800 Market
St., S.F.
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A boy-love study group is being
formed in the Sacramento area. Any-
one interested in participating in
this effort should write to:
SAMBLA
P.O. Box 26610-#297
Sacramento, CA 95862
or call:
(916) 925 - 0539
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nice. . . ordinary kid, skinny, about 5*8" " named
Dou«. Doug gets off the bus from Kansas and is
first approached by a man wanting sex and offering
sixty dollars. "I told him I wasn’t that kind of
boy.” Then step In the real villains, the Church
of Bible Understanding.
Father Bruce said, "That first guy, Doug,
only wanted to buy your body for a couple of
hours. The Church of Bible Understanding 1s much
worse. They wanted to own your mind for the rest
of your life. . . Some men try to buy children’s
bodies. Others, even more vicious, try to buy
their souls." The letter closes with a plea to
send money so Father Bruce can send more Dougs and
Susans back to Kansas.
Some Dougs and Susans don't feel helped by
Father Bruce at all. In their April 13 presen-
tation to the Community Council of Lesbian and Gay
Organizations, Gay and Lesbian Youth of New York
stated that Under 21, run by Covenant House,
openly mistreats lesbian and gay youth who apply
for their services. A GLYNY member said that they
city might have withheld funding from this shelter
if the lawsuit over Executive Order 50 had not su-
pervened. Other allegations have been made that
staff members of "Under 21" who are understanding
and sympathetic to gay and lesbian youth have been
fired. GLYNY feels that the St. Mark’s Shelter is
very good.
if:
The effect of laws on behavior department:
Researchers at the State Division of Alcoholism
and Substance Abuse have surveyed 17- and 18-year-
olds. 76% of the 18-year-olds questioned during
December 1983 (one year after the drinking age was
raised to 19) said they had imbibed alcohol in the
past month. In November of 1982, 85/6 had answered
yes .
Of the 17-year-olds, before Ihe drinking age
was raised, I8l6 said they had quaffed five or more
drinks for four of the past eight Fridays and Sa-
turdays. After the raising of age the percentage
went down to 1316. Of the 17-year-olds questioned
after the hike, 66% said that they had tippled vs.
72% before.
The report also noted a more
decline among women than men. (NY
4/22/85) Such is youth’s respect for
of the law.
pronounced
Dally News
the majesty
*
Denny Abbott, director of the Adam Walsh Child
Research Center spoke to a Cookesville, TN Junior
Women’s Club event on April 23p 1985. He stated
that between 1,500 and 2,000 unidentified children
are buried - many of them victims of child mo-
lesters. One out of every four girls and one out
of every seven boys will be sexually molested by
the age of 17, he said. (Cookesville, TN 'Herald
Citizen 4/25/85)
*
On the national front, Kenneth V. Lanning is the
FBI's expert on child sex. He has been a speci-
alist in "deviant sexual behavior" for 12 years,
focusing on child sexual abuse for the last
four. He works out of an office in the behavioral
science unit of the FBI Academy on the Marine
Corps base in Quantico, VA, 40 miles southwest of
Washington, D.C. According to Assisant FBI Di-
rector William M. Baker, the FBI has 116 "open
cases" (investigations or prosecutions). The
Postal Service has about 90 active cases, said
Robert D. Jay, head of its child pornography
mailings branch. (LA Times 11/15/84) □
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Peter Melzer ■<>
Bill Andriette Floyd Conaway
Peter Reed o Robert Rhodes
Chris Farrell
O’ Henry Salt
Linda Frankel
David Thorstad
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QUID NUNC (Latin for "What now?") M ml
Is a person who Is inquisitive M II
about the latest news* or gossip; a I
busybody. That would describe both
me and this column. It covers va- m
rlous newsworthy events that don’t 1 I
merit longer stories. To para- I I
phrase a famous newspaper's slogan: JL ^
"All the news that fits, we'll
print." •'ob'
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The endless pre-trial hearing in the McMartin
Pre-School molestation case is getting a tad bit
weird. It has gone on for nine months and bids
fair to go on for another twelve.
A ten-year-old boy, described as articulate
and poised, testified that he and ten other chil-
dren were taken in the school van on numerous oc-
casslons to a nearby cemetary by three McMartin
school teachers.
He said that at the cemetary the children
were forced to use pick axes, shovels and two
rope-like pulleys to exhume caskets. He added
that the children went into the grave and , placed
some dirt on their shirts and hauled some out.
This story unfolded during a cross-
examination by defense attorney Dean Grits, who
further asked "What did you do when you got the
casket out?"
"They (the teachers) opened it. . . and cut a
few pieces," the boy replied. "They didn't take
bones off; they just took slices out."
by Robert Rhodes
III In a study by the Family Crisis
III ■ Program for Sexually Abused Chil-
1 1 ^ dren at the New England Medical
Center, Dr. Jonathon M. Horowlt2
says, "The level of psychological
distress observed. seems to
I ^11 range from complete absence of any
A ^ conventional symptoms of childhood
psychopathology to the presence of
Rhodes extreme and pervasive emotional
problems . "
In some cases, these personality problems may
have existed before the children's sexual exper-
iences, the study, published in the May issue of
Hospital and Community Psychiatry shows. The
findings were based on a behavioral questionnaire
given to 112 children who had sexual experiences
^Ith adults. Three-fourths were girls. Two-
thirds had Incestuous experiences.
About 2^% of the four-to-six-year-old
children had anxieties, fears and depression that
probably resulted from emotionally disturbing ex-
periences. ilOt of those seven to 13 were seri-
ously disturbed in at least one area of be-
havior, They were more likely than other children
their age to be angry, destructive and hold in
their anxieties. Among teenagers (IM to 18) only
8$ showed serious problems.
"Sometimes they are at a level where they are
more consensual and know what , they are doing," Ho-
rowitz," says. "So they don't' have the guilt
because it was their decision to go along with
it." (Boston Globe 5/12/85)
"Would it bleed?" Grits asked.
"Sometimes," said the boy.
Deputy Public Defender Forrest Latiner, who
at one point during the boy's testimony was or-
dered to "stop snickering" by Municipal Judge
Aviva K, Bobb, broke into laughter in the hallway
later .
"Picture seven little dwarfs with pick axes
marching to a grave in broad daylight. . , "
Latiner said.
The boy identified photographs of L.A. City
Attorney-elect James Kenneth Hahn, movie actor
Chuck Morris, a priest and four nuns as among the
strangers who allegedly killed animals and took
the students to a church in Hermosa Beach, where
they were forced to pray to "three or four
gods." The nuns and others chanted from the
pews." (LA Times il/25 and 4/26/85)
Also in California, two daughers of Brian Taugher,
the State Justice Department official who was
cleared of a child-sex charge recently, have filed
a raillion-dollar claim against Sacremento Coun-
ty. The claim alleges negligence, false imprison-
ment, emotional duress and violation of the girl's
civil rights. Authorities claim at Taugher's
trial that they took the two, aged 9 and 16, Into
custody to protect them. (LA Times 4/29/85)
In another instance of child "protection," UPI
reports that police in Manila have arrested 550
children In a four-month campaign against child
prostitution in Manila's tourist belt. (N.Y.
Daily News 5/15/85)
Trude Able-Peterson is coordinator of a
Victim Services (New York City) project called
Streetwork. It was started last year with a
tvftjOOO federal grant to reach teen-agers so
deeply Involved in the Times Square sex scene that
they would refuse to come in for help.
Though she has some social work training, her
"In" is her experience as a prostitute in Minnea-
polis. Having seen the light, she was hired
eagerly by agencies trying to reach runaways.
Miss Able-Petersen has about 300 regular
clients, "You were out here turning tricks yes-
terday, weren't you?" she said to a 13-year-old-
looking boy. He said he had been. "Oh honey,"
she said, "you deserve better than that." He
shrugged .
She tells of two nine-year-old boys in front
of a Burger King. "They had heard that they could
make a lot of money in Times Square," she said.
"They were right. They were adorable, and they
would have made someone a lot of money. We bought
them food, gave them a stiff lecture and took them
home to the Bronx," (NY Times 5/10/85) What, I
wonder, are the odds on the two lads staying in
the Bronx?
If you have ever given any money to Covenant
House (not the best of ideas), you are familiar
with the stream-of-consciousness fund-raising
letters Father Bruce Ritter sends out. The one
dated May, 1985 is especially interesting. It
describes a dialogue between Father Bruce and "a
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REBUTEL AUGUST 22, 1985, RECEIVED AT ROME AUGUST 2 6, ^>^85^^
REFERENCE ALSO IS MADE TO ROMTELS DATED JULY 3, ISSa/ Cl '
CAPTION); AUGUST 15, 1984 AND AUGUST 29 , 1985 (
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REROMTELS CONTAINED RESULTS OF INVESTIGATION BY ISRAELI POLICE
AS REPORTED BY THE THEN ASSIGNED LEGAT PERSONNEL,
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ROME HAS REVIEWED ROME CASE FILE CONCERNING
IN CONTEXT OF THE INVESTIGATIVE OBJECTIVES SET FORTH FOR
THE VARIOUS INTERESTED OFFICES IN REBUTEL. AS A RESULT OF**"
that REV lEWN ROME OFFERS THE FOLLOWING OBSERVATIONS AND SETS
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INVESTIGATION IN ISRAEL, PARTICULARLY THE INTERVIEWS
OF ISRAELI NATIONALS, WOULD BE CONDUCTED BY ISRAELI POLICE
AUTHORITIES. THE REQUEST FOR INTERVIEWS OF ANY ISRAELI
NATIONALS ON BEHALF OF THE FBI WOULD BE COMMUNICATED TO THE
INTERPOL SECTION OF THE ISRAELI POLICE BY ROME LEGAT. THEREAFTER,
INVESTIGATION WOULD BE CONDUCTED AND REPORTED BY THE ISRAELI
POLICE WITHIN THE LEGAL AND OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS OF THAT SERVICE.
A REQUEST CAN BE MADE TO THE ISRAELI POLICE AUTHORITIES FOR
be
SUPPLEMENTAL INVESTIGATION IN I3?AEL CONCERNING THE BACKGROUND b7c
TO THE PHOTOGRAPH OF| [THAT APPEARED IN "REVISTA MEA" .
THE REQUEST FOR INVESTIGATION CAN BE COMMUNICATED DIRECTLY TO
ISRAELI POLICE HEADQ BARTERS, JERUSALEM, BY LEGAT PERSONNEL AND/OR
FBI AGENTS TRAVELING FROM THE US. EITHER WAY THE INVESTIGATION
WILL BE COIDUCTED BY THE ISRAELI POLICE AND, IN ALL LIKELIHOOD,
WOULD OtLY INCORPORATE WHATEVER QUESTIONS WERE PROPOSED BY THE
VISITING AGENTS DURING A PRIOR BRIEFING AT ISRAELI POLICE
headquarters.
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SECONDLY, TRAVEL TO A COUNTRY IN LEGAT TERRITORY OUTSIDE
THE HOST COUNTRY IS CONDUCTED PURSUANT TO THE WRITTEN CONCURRENCE
OF THE US AMBASSADOR IN THAT COUNTRY AND IN COORDINATION WITH THE
INTERESTED US EMBASSY COMPONENT, USUALLY THE REGIONAL SECURITY
OFFICE. THE WRITTEN CONCURRENCE IS A SIMPLE, BUREAUCRATIC
PROCEDURE, HOWEVER, IT IS A REQUISITE FOR TRAVEL TO THAT COUNTRY
AM) REQUIRES PRIOR LEGAT COORDINATION.
THIRDLY, THE PERIOD SEPTEMBER 16 THRU 30, 19S5, IS A PERIOD OF
TIME INI IN ISRAEL DURING WHICH MAJOR RELIGIOUS HOLIDAYS ARE
CB SERVED. THE HOLIDAYS OCCUR ON THE 1 6, 1 7, 2 5 AND 30 TH. ON
THOSE FOUR DAYS GOVERNMENT OFFICES ARE aOSED. THERE IS DECREASED
BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENT ACTIVITY DURING THIS PERIOD. THEREFORE,
LEGAT COORDINATION WOULD BE REQUIRED DURING THIS PERIOD IN ORDER
TO ARRANGE A MEETING DATE WITH THE ISRAELI NATIONAL POLICE AUTHORITIES.
ROME CONSIDERS THE ISRAELI POLICE TO BE A COMPETENT AND
EFFICIENT SERVICE BASED ON THE LIMITED RESOURCES AT ITS DISPOSAL.
ROME ENJOYS AN EXCELLENT RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ISRAELI POLICE AND
HAS CONSIDERABLE CONTACT WITH THAT SERVICE IN THE FORM OF WRITTEN
AND VERBAL COMMUNICATIONS. ROME BELIEVES THAT THE INVESTIGATION CON-
DUCTED BY THE ISRAELI POLICE IN ISRAEL WAS AS COMPLETE AN INVESTIGA-
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TION AS POSSIBLE BASED ON THE AVAILABLE INFORMATION. IT WOULD
APPEAR THAT THE RESLLTS OF THAT INVESTIGATION, ALBEIT LIMITED,
REPRESENTED A SINCERE AND PROFESSIONAL ATTEMPT BY THE ISRAELI
POLICE TO RESOLVE THE EVENTS LEADING TO THE PUBLICATION OF THE
photograph 0F|
ROME ACKNOWLEDGES THE SIGNIFICANCE OF CAPTIONED INVESTIGATIONS
A® IS MOST WILLING TO PURSUE ANY AND ALL SUPPLEMENTAL INVESTIGA-
TION IN ISRAEL CONCERNING THE PUBLICATION OF THE ABOVE PHOTOGRAPH.
HOWEVER, GIVEN THE RESULTS OF INVESTIGATION TO DATE BY THE ISRAELI be
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POLICE, ROME IS NOT CONVINCED THAT ANOTHER REQUEST FOR INVESTIGA-
TION CONCERNIN3 THE MATTER PREVIOUSLY ADDRESS WOULD PROVE PRODUCTIVE
FOR THE FBI, FURTHER, ROME LEG AT IS CONCERNED THAT A REQUEST TO
REPEAT INVESTIGATION ALREADY CONDUCTED BY THE ISRAELI POLICE
WOULD BE PERCEIVED BY THAT SERVICE AS REDUNDANT AND AN INSULT TO
THE PROFESSIONALISM AND INTEGRITY OF ITS OFFICERS. AT THIS TIME,
ROME WOULD STRONGLY RECOMMEND A DIFFERENT COURSE OF ACTION, THE
alternate COURSE OF ACTION WOULD BE TO REQUEST A LETTER ROGATORY
FOR THE INTERVIEWS OF THE VARIOUS EMPLOYEES OF
"REVISTA MEA" CONCERNING THE PUBLICATION OF THE ABOVE PHOTOGRAPH.
ROME BELIEVES THAT THE ADVANTAGES OF A LETTER ROGATORY REQUEST FOR
THE SUPPLEMENTAL INVESTIGATION DESIRED BY FBIH3 OFFERS THE
FOLLOWING:
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r. THE REQUEST WOULD BE AT THE LEVEL OF THE US GOVERNMENT TO THE
GOVERNMENT OF ISRAEL AND THEREBY HEIGHTEN THE POLITICAL AWARENESS
OF THE INTERESTED ISRAELI OFFICIALS CONCERNING INVESTIGATION
DESIRED BY THE FBI.
2. THE LETTER ROGATORY WOULD CAUSE THE DEPOSITIONS OF SELECTED
iroiVDUALS IN A METHOD WHEREBY ALL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS PRESENTED
DURING THE DEPOSITION WOULD BE AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW BY FBIHQ.
3. THE LETTER ROGATORY WOULD ENABLE THE COMPLETE LISTING OF
QUESTIONS DESIRED BY THE FBI IN CONNECTION .WITH THE INVESTIGATION.
4. THE RESPONSES STATED DURING THE DEPOSITION WOULD BE EVIDENTIARY
IN NATURE AND THEREFORE ADMISSABLE IN ANY FUTURE CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS
CONCERNING THIS MATTER.
5. FINALLY, THE LETTER ROGATORY REPRESENTS THE ONLY VEHICLE WITH
WHICH TO PREDICATE AN INDEPTH INTERVIEW OF FOREIGN NATIONALS TO
VARIOUS COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD BASED ON EXISTING BILATERAL TREATIES
WITH THE US.
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THIS COMMUNICATION AND CONSIDER THE MERIT OF FUTURE INVESTIGATION
IN ISRAEL BY LETTER ROGATORY PROCESS. SHOULD FBIHQ BE IN AGREEMENT,
THEN CONTACT SHOULD BE MADE WITH THE OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS,
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Date 8/20/85
FD-36 (Rev. 8-26-82)
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UNITED STAll:S DEPARTMENT OF JUfaflCE
FEl)ERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
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AIRTEL
DATE: 12/26/85
TO
SUBJECT;
: DIRECTOR, FBI
^ADIC, NEW YORK (BQ 183B-3396) (C)
^:£»N0RTH AMERICAN.^M^/BfiY^ LOyS AS.SJDC.I AM.QN
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ReBuTT, dated 1/12/85 and NYTT, dated 2/20/85.
ReBuTT opened captioned matter based on infiorma^on, tbat
it appeared thatl land others, all memBers'ySt tn^
NORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY LOVE ASSOCIATION (NAMBLA) were i/vol/ved
and/or had knowledge regarding the disappearance of
I I, a six-year old boy, was abducted the morning of 5
Investigation has now reached a concluding phase, wher
and its members are no longer considered as suspects in the[
matter.
..n NAMBLA
the
7-2762,
inviestigations
being placed in
For the information of the Bureau and receiving offices,
lease is presently being addressed separately in BQ
likewise NAMBLA in BQ 145C-3923. Since these two
no longer appear to be related, captioned matt< r
a closed status.
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2 - New Haven (145C-467) (INFO)
2 - San Francisco (145B-1294)’. (INFC))
2 - Washington Field Office (183B'^058)
2 - New York (BQ 183B-3396)
« UAN 8 1986
(INFO)
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
I FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
AIRTEL
DATE: 8/7/85
TO
: DIRECTOR, FBI (133-7933)
(ATTN : I
EXECUTIVE
AGENGtES UNIT, ROOM 5224)
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SUBJECT:
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NAME CHECK REQUEST
BUDED: PAST
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Reference Bureau memorandum, dated May 29, 1985.
Enclosed for the Bureau are one copy each of the
following communications;
1)
Washington Field Office CWFO) airtel and LHM. dated
September 6, 1972, titled '
], aka; UNSUBS; VISTORS TO THE SOVIET
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EMBASSY, WASHINGTON, D.C., FEBRUARY 4, 1972;
PASSENGERS IN A CHEVROLET BEARING 1971 NEW YORK
LICENSE 9853YA, INTERNAL SECURITY - RUSSIA,
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New York airtel and LHM# dated September 18*f 1972 ,
titled "I I aka; |
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New York airtel and LHM. dated October 27, 1972,
titled
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New York LHM, dated Aug
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3ust 5, 198 5, tix/^ '1 |
ORTH AMERICAN MAM/BOY LOVE ASSOCIATION
( N AM^'^A')' AL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN".
2 -^Bureau (Ends. 4)
2-New York (BQ 183B-3396)
(BQ 145C-3923)
'.enclosure AIIACHED'
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KTR:U 0 1981
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POl AUG 14
BQ 183A-3395
Enclosures numbered one (1) thru three (3) are
self-explanatory in that they set forth the details ofj ' I
visits to the Soviet and Romanian Embassies in 1972. C_ \
also provides details relating to his travel to Europe and his
encounter with
Regarding Nev/ York case| [captioned 'j |
b ET AL;| I- VICTI^l; NORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY LOVE
ASSOCIATION (NAMBLA); RICO; 00;NY,” | ~|name had
been identified by a New York Office confidential source as being
on the mailing and/or membership list of the NAMBLA. No other
information is available regarding! L although it does
appear he is identical to the United States Secret Service
Applicant.
At present the United States Attorney's Office is not
involved in any prosecutive action and/or consideration relating
toj {being a possible NAMBLA member.
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
New York, New York
August 6, 1986
North American Man/Boy Love Association
(NAMBLA) - Sexual Exploitation of Children
I, telephone! /, has been identified as a possible
member of the NAMBLA, an organization that advocates consensual
sexual relationships with male youths.
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conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI
and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are
not to be distributed outside your agency.
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